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Subject: Re: New Media Update to PlayChess.com

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 08:15:40 10/16/03

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On October 16, 2003 at 08:48:14, Anthony Martini wrote:

>Hello -,
>
>       There is a new media update to the PlayChess GUI (it may also be for
>ChessBase too) that allows media streams (video) to play. There is free content
>& premium content. I haven't had much of a chance to play with it. I'm hoping
>video streams will be available for the upcoming Fritz/Kas match.
>
>       You will need to have MS Media Player 9 installed to play the video.
>
>       -( I'm not sure how long this update has been available, so pardon if
>this has already been discussed here... I haven't been on in a while )-
>
>   -,
>      Anthony


I have Fritz8.26--- the german language new version of fritz8 called WM or
weltmeister. This comes with a second multimedia disk which contains 225
megabytes of windows media file that ply in a window inside of the home playing
gui as well.
The files actually contain an avi file with some alpha subcode. That is- if you
just play the files in Windows media nine, you will seee the video plus some
alph text. When played inside of fritz8 this alpha text sends instructions to a
chess board that highlights squares and arrows, etc.
This is a step up from the usual chess videos- and from including video in a web
page of text in fritz.
But the specs are not available I think for the home user to encode his own
fritz media-- and that is a big disappointment for me.



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