Dear user, Thanks for using SthVCD. If you have any problems or any good suggestions, please contact me. My E-mail: southern@herosoft.com. Reds, Zhaoxin Liang
SthVCD 5.5 new function: 1.Support DVCD playing function:  DVCD is VCD high density format which possesses 100 minutes,   SthVCD 5.5 supports it well. 
SthVCD 5.5 new function: 2.New Universal track playing mode” can play any normal and abnormal VCD,DVCD and etc. Even VCD has no file at all, or the file is only a little part of the whole VCD , it can be played completely. This new function conquers the problems that previous versions can only play a little part of the disc.
SthVCD 5.5 new function: 3.Support audio frequency band equilibrium adjustment, such as aggravate bourbon effect, etc.
SthVCD 5.5 new function: 4.Support directly turning VCD into AVI file.
SthVCD 5.5 new function: 5.Automatically plays any VCD , supports auto playing all types of VCD, DVCD,  no file VCD or VCD that was identified as music CD.
SthVCD 5.5 new function: 6.Support play MP3, music CD according to random sequence.
SthVCD 5.5 new function: 7.Support adjust color deflection, to conquer the problem of inexact color from source CD itself. (MMX version only takes effect when YUV is accelerating. ) .
SthVCD 5.5 new function: 8.Support user choose interface background image by himself. 
SthVCD 5.5 new function: 9.Support adjust color deflection, to conquer the problem of inexact color from source CD itself. (MMX version only takes effect when YUV is accelerating. ) .
SthVCD 5.5 new function: 10.Support 3D Now! Technique , get higher speed and better performance in the computer contains 3D now! technique .
SthVCD 5.5 new function: 11.Support self-defined hotkey, thus it can support remote controller easily, such as switch to small screen is redefined to ESC key, exit is defined as ALT+x, Please read STHCMD.INI file.
SthVCD 5.5 new function: 12.Support dragging function: support to drag MPG,VCD and MP3 file directly to SthVCD 's interface for playing.
Hero Super VCD 5.5 (Beta version) isn't 100% finished beta version, maybe it has some problems. If your computer has no YUV acceleration , some problems may come out when it is playing in full screen , so we recommend you should not install this beta version, unless the your computer has better display adapter£¨4M memory, AGP or PCI  display adapter with  hardware YUV acceleration£©. Otherwise we suggest you should not install this beta version .
Hero Super VCD Beta Version function: 1.Support playing super VCD such as CVD,SVCD,etc. And also support DVCD,DSVCD discs.
Hero Super VCD Beta Version function: 2.Hero Super VCD 5.5 adopts MPEG-2 arithmetic core, supports any sizes of video windows.
Hero Super VCD Beta Version function: 3.Support multi track audio , and its switch.
Hero Super VCD Beta Version function: 4.National standard super VCD, it supports 4 languages.
Hero Super VCD Beta Version function: 5.Hero Super VCD 5.5 (Beta version ) is not the most perfect, perhaps contains various problems, especially in the computers without YUV acceleration function, so it requires hardware YUV acceleration.  
Playing no file VCD : Occasionally, we will met some strange VCDs, their format aren't compatible with Windows, we couldn't see any file in Windows Resource manager. This VCD is callled "No file VCD", it temporarily couldn't implement auto play. Thereby it must be implemented by this "Universal track mode" function . It has auto playing capability.
SthVCD support choose songs directly in the screen . While playing VCD which support choose songs in the screen ,it like DVD choose songs, well support interactive capability.
SthVCD 5.5 can auto hide mouse while full screen playing. When mouse doesn't move it can auto hide itself. As soon as mouse move, it will appear again. This function is convenient to see VCD.
If you intend to capture VCD pieces, first, you'd better turn off DirectCDROM, second replay VCD, third, you can capture. 
Hero Super VCD 5.5 (Beta version) is a new product beta version that we earnestly recommend to user. It can play VCD, CVD and SVCD easily, also support DVCD, DCVC, DSVCD high-density discs. "Super VCD" is national standard, it adopts MPEG-2, 4-track sound and 4-track caption high clearness VCD format.
How to switch super VCD karaoke?  Super VCD support two track stereo audio , so karaoke perhaps would not adopt left and right tracks  , on the contrary, adopt 2 track stereo . Switch to audio  channel 0 and audio channel 1 to  realize it.
Lower temperature of CPU function: It is allowed system call HLT instruction to lower temperature  while system is leisure . Because it is OS core in leisure time when it cools down , so it make 100 % use of free time, temperature descension efficiency is very high. This function is exactly the same as Windows NT leisure disposal .  It equals to take NT technology to Windows 9X.
SthVCD 5.5 configuration and setting are located in "Control", "Audio", "Video" menu respectively, they are not located in "Help" menu any longer.
The piece that SthVCD 5.5 captured supports any player, it conquers this problem in SthVCD 5.0. In addtion, these pieces captured can also used in directly make new VCD.
Super VCD picture is larger than VCD, it requires more display memory, it will be very hard while display card memory is less than 4M . The best effect mode of SthVCD is set D1 size to play with 800X600 mode.
Play current CD:     "Auto servo"  doesn't search at regular intervals ,but servo, so it won't search and read VCD,  MP3,  CD that have been existed in CD-ROM. Here, user can directly click "play current CD", thus SthVCD will identify CD and begin to play .This is newly added content, which conquers a disadvantage of STHVCD 5.0 only supports  CD auto play the CD which has been just inserted into CD-ROM .
Record VCD piece:   Please refer to "Control" part of "Video Decoder" .
Turn VCD into AVI (Beta version) :  Turn VCD piece into AVI file is a new function which sthVCD5.5 newly adds. Through this function, you can complete some "professional" process smoothly . For example, after turning part of VCD into AVI, you can do some nonlinear edit operation. 
"SthVCD auto servo" is a servo program that makes computer auto play VCD, CVD, SVCD,DVCD and MP3,CD . It doesn't like other software explorers check CD-ROM every other time, but it is a servo program, only check whether it can play after system annunciation that new CD has been inserted into CD-ROM, and remember VCD, MP3 and CD that has been played, so as to be convenient to start play program rapidly later. 
SVCD and CVD are new formats , which adopt MPEG-2 encode, their resolution are higher than VCD. In SVCD and CVD they all adopt field encode , so it will come out " burr phenomena " in the picture , which will be very ugly when magnify it vertically.  So, the best viewing mode for SVCD and CVD  is to fix the picture of D1 size. (Hot key shift+home)
File dragged function: User can drag MP3 or MPG file directly from "resource manager" to audio decoder, audio decoder will respond these dragged files at once, it is much more convenient than open file mode.
SthVCD is the most welcomed decoder in China, it is not limited play CD,VCD or MP3 smoothly, it possesses edit, make functions, for example, to make VCD oneself, to turn VCD to AVI file, to make CD,VCD into MP3, etc.
Use "Audio Decoder" to make MP3 music : The main procedures of making MP3 music by "Auto Decoder"  are consistent with "CD compression" , the only change is "Open file " instead of "Open CD disc" . You can choose WAV file as source file to compression and record. 
Audio :  SthVCD supply rich sound control. Besides the functions of left and right track and microphone import which are common with other software, it provides sound mixture and set frequency equilibrium functions additionally.
Set equalizer: Make Use of it to adjust sound frequency band, like some advance combination acoustics , it can carefully adjust sound, for example, aggravate bourdon or alt effect.
Microphone sound import: Open "Microphone sound import"  , "microphone " scrollbar on the right of playing interface changed into adjustable status . It can perform microphone volume regulation.
Video : With Video menu as soul part, SthVCD supply much more selective mode, which can undertake selection and control of color, picture quality and picture size conveniently.
Brightness adjustment: Some movie picture is very dark ,  in order to see the movie more clearly, you can increase or decrease its brightness through menu's "increase/decrease brightness" or "brightness" scroll bar in the right of interface.
For a computer without MMX expand instruction set , adjust brightness will affect its playing speed,  however for a computer with MMX brightness adjustment will not affect its playing speed.
Modify picture quality : Click "Modify picture quality " , it will pop up a "Picture quality adjustment" dialog box. SthVCD provides 32 class picture quality adjustment totally,  0 class is the best picture quality, 31 class is the worst picture quality.
If your computer is over Pentium 120,  you don't need any special settings , then you can get 0 class picture quality.
Set YUV mode preferential sequence :  SthVCD supports YUV acceleration display card of MGA transmission mode ,etc. In general , this item set will auto sorting according to YUV mode that computer display card supports. User needn't user to set it himself, use default sequence is OK.


