# Installing EZ Squeeze

The Beta version of EZ Squeeze is located in the Pioneers folder of the 3DO Toolkit 1.5. Two methods of installing the tool are described below.

## Quick install

Use quick install if you want to evaluate the EZ Squeeze codec. This will allow you to compress your own QuickTime movies, weave the compressed video with your audio, and play the resulting stream with the EZQPlayer application.

1. In the Pioneers folder on the Toolkit 1.5 CD, open the Tools folder and the MovieToEZQ folder and copy MovietoEZQ into your 3DO:Streaming:2p1:Stream Tools folder.

2. Open the EZ Squeeze Examples:EZQPlayer folder and copy EZQPlayer into your remote folder.

3. Open the Examples:EZQPlayer:Apps&Data folder and copy COPTER.STREAM to your remote folder.

4. To play a movie launch the Debugger, and in the Debugger Terminal window type ezqplayer copter.stream.

Installing MovieToEZQ lets you convert a QuickTime movie into an EZ Squeeze chunk file. After using the Weaver tool to convert the chunk file into a stream file, you can use EZQPlayer to play the EZ Squeeze stream on a 3DO Development Station or Development Card.

## Full installation

Full installation installs source code for most of the EZ Squeeze components.

1. Open the EZ Squeeze Subscribers folder and copy the EZQSubscriber folder into the Subscribers folder in the 2.1 Data Stream folder (3DO: Streaming 2p1:Data Stream:Subscribers).

2. In MPW, set you directory to the 3DO:Streaming:2pa:Datastream:Subscribers folder and run the MPW script BuildSubscriberLib. This rebuilds the SubscriberLib to include EZQSubscriber.

3. Copy the EZQPlayer folder to the Streaming 2p1 Examples folder.

4. In the EZ Squeeze Tools folder, open the MovieToEZSqueeze folder and copy it to the Source folder in the Steaming 2p1 Stream Tools folder.

Note: The lowest level compression and decompression modules are supplied in object format only. These are squeeze.lib, the Mac compression library, and ezqcodec.lib the 3DO decompression library.

## Sample data

In the folder Pioneers:EZSqueeze:Examples:EZQPlayer:Apps & Data, you will find the following sample files:

- COPTER.DM - Uncompressed QuickTime movie. Note that this sample takes up 57 MB of disk space.

- COPTER.SCRIPT - Weave script for making COPTER.STREAM.

- COPTER.STREAM - An EZ Squeeze stream, playable with EZQPlayer (6.5 MB of disk space).

- COPTER.MAKE - An MPW script that will create COPTER.STREAM.