Known Bugs and Limitations

  1. If you are installing MAGpie under Windows98 and Internet Explorer 5.0, you may get an error message during the installation process warning of an access violation on the file RichEd32.DLL. Please choose the "Ignore" button on the dialog box. Operation of MAGpie will not be affected by ignoring this message.

  2. The editing grid in MAGpie may occasionally display odd behavior, such as automatic scrolling.

  3. When reviewing captions, MAGpie may not display the first caption or subtitle in a stream. If this happens, press <F7> to stop the playback, then press <F6> to resume playback. The first caption or subtitle will now display properly.

  4. MAGpie can position captions to the left, center or right in the text window. However, different multimedia players (such as the RealPlayer, the Quicktime Player or Windows Media Player) treat positioning differently:

-- When playing back captions or subtitles using SAMI, your text may not appear centered in the media window even though you have applied centering as a style in the MAGpie editor. This is a feature of the Windows Media Player and SAMI, which left-justifies captions while centering them in the player window. Left-placed captions will appear left justified, and right-placed captions will appear on the right but will be left justified.

-- When playing back captions in the QuickTime Player your captions will, in fact, appear as you specify them in the editor.

-- When playing back captions using SMIL via RealPlayer, centered captions may be centered relative to the root layout of the player, not to the position of the video. This is a feature of RealText and the RealPlayer. Thus, centered captions may not actually fit completely within the playerís display. The RealPlayer currently does not accommodate right-placed captions.

  1. MAGpie can sequence and integrate audio descriptions into a RealPlayer SMIL presentation. However, MAGpie does not have the capability to actually record audio description sound files. If you want to include audio descriptions in a multimedia presentation, you must first record them using the appropriate software.

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