Osprey SimulStream Encoding Manager Application 2.0
20 July 2002
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This is the initial release of the Osprey SimulStream Encoding 
Manager, an application designed to utilize some of the 
capabilities of Osprey SimulStream drivers. SimulStream Encoding 
Manager is not representative of all of the features and 
capabilites that SimulStream, a driver-level Osprey software 
upgrade for capture cards, provides. Rather this application 
is intended to illustrate how the content creation workflow 
and streaming encoding density can be greatly improved by 
leveraging the SimulStream capability.  This application
allows the user to capture multiple Real and/or Windows Media
streams simultaneously, while conserving system resources by
only needing to open a single application.

This application will operate with all Osprey capture
cards and drivers, but installations without SimulStream
drivers are limited to a single encoding session.
Drivers with version 2.0.0 or 2.1.0 or later are
capable of SimulStreaming.  Only 1 instance of this
application can be run at a time.

To review the current limitations of this software, and 
the list of known problems, please select the 
"Help.. Contents" menu item after completing this 
installation and running the SimulStream Encoder
application.
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Requirements:

- Under Windows NT, this application can only be installed
on systems with Service Pack 6a, and IE6 (Internet Explorer 
6), and DirectXMedia 6 (DXMedia).  The DXMedia package is
distributed on Osprey Driver Release CDs; if the AmCap application 
functions on your system, then you have already installed DXMedia.

- There are no special requirements for Windows 2000 or
Windows XP.


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Additional Known Problems:

- Maximum width for PAL streams is 720 pixels.

- This version of the application does not see multiple
types of Osprey cards (500, 540, 220) correctly, When
multiple types of Osprey cards are present the application
will capture audio from only the first card detected.
Please contact support for instructions about working
around this bug.

- When CPU usages is above 80%, the Windows Media / Real SDKs 
used by this application may drop incoming audio/video data. 
As a consequence, audio and video become unsynchronized. It 
is strongly recommended that users choose encoding profile 
combinations which do not exceed 80% CPU utilization.