Video clips, Images, Live streams, Flash - OpenTZT's Materials

Any type of file or generator plugin openTZT can load is called a material. The material palette consists of up to 9 banks of 9 pages each. Each of these pages can hold up to 17 materials. So openTZT can load up to 1.377 materials. The Q Key is automatically left empty on all pages to be able to clear a player regardless of which page is active. The following file types are available:

• AVI - openTZT can load any type of avi file your OS provides a codec for.
• MPG, MV1 - usually every mpeg1 or mpeg2 file is usable.
• MOV, SWF - if Quicktime support is enabled (see Configuration) older mov files and simple flash files are supported.
• JPG, BMP - any kind of bmp or jpg file is supported. Keep in mind that rescaling an image is somewhat time consuming, so try to avoid images that are a lot larger than the resolution openTZT works in.

Generator Plugins

Generator plugins are DLL files that can provide virtually any type of video data. Place thes dll's beneath video clips or images in the \F*\ folders. They will be loaded as any other material.

Special Inputs

A Thru Material is a special type of material that causes the player to pass through the video stream as it is to it's effects (see below how exactly this works).
To place a thru material in a material page simply place an file with the extension .thu in a \F*\ folder. This file can be empty.

Live Video Capture can be enabled by creating a file with the extension .cap in one of the \F*\ folders. This file contains the configuration for the video capturing.
This is an example file:

		[setting]
		DeviceNum=0
		UseGdi=1
		dv_half_res=0
		PiP=1
		PiPX=0
		PiPY=0
		PiPWidth=640
		PiPHeight=480