[ Online Help for MMPC ]

The Faculty of Education equips 6 MultiMedia Personal Computer (MMPC 1 ~ MMPC 6) inside IT Lab 1 to faciliate the IT teaching and learning. With these machines, students can create multimedia teaching materials such as convert video clips from DV tapes to digital format and then embedded into various computer software. User can also records musics/voices. These machines have been installed with CD-RW drive so that you can backup your files to CD-R/CD-RW disc and play the files at home. In view of limited resouces, priority will be given to students who are working for course assignments.

Remark 1: A quick guide for the necessary steps for video/audio capturing has been attached to each MMPC.

Remark 2: In view of system stability, no printing service is available for the MMPC.

Remark 3: The computer room does not provide any CD-R/RW disc. Please bring the disc for your personal use.

Remark 4: You should not use this machine to do any works that infringe the Copyright Ordinance of HKSAR.

Online Help

Software Available

Online Help

1. How to do video capturing with the Multimedia Capture System ? (Please save your movie files to drive D: only)

2. How to merge two movie files (MPEG files) into one file ?

3. How to convert MPEG / DAT files to AVI files?

4. How to convert movie files between different formats ?

5. How to do audio file converting (dBpowerAMP) and editing (Audacity) ?

6. How to convert auido files between different formats ?

7. How to do audio recording in IT Lab 1?

8. How to use the CD-RW drive to make CD/VCD ?

9. How to create CD Label?

10. How to convert document(s) to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) ?

11. What is "Copyright Ordinance" of HKSAR ?

• Information from HKSAR
• Information from University

Software Available inside MMPC

Types	Software
OS	Windows XP (Traditional Chinese)
Video/Audio Tools	Audacity - Audio editor to record/edit WAV, AIFF and MP3 files.
	avi2vcd - Convert AVI movie file to VCD format (MPEG).
	Creative Recorder - Record audio in WAVE file
	dBpowerAMP Music Converter -Convert between Wave, MP3, MWA and audio tracks.
	eXstream - Convert AVI movie file to MPEG format
	FlaskMPEG - MPEG editor, output to AVI file
	rm2avi - Convert RM video file to AVI file
	RealProducer Basic - To create moive/aduio file in RM format
	TMPGEnc - Editor for MPEG movie files
	VCD Gear - Extract movie file from VCD and correct MPEG movie files
	Stoik Video Converter (VideoPak) - Convert MPEG / DAT files to AVI fiels
	Windows Media Encorder -Create/Edit WMV/ASF video files
	Windows Movie Maker - Create WMV video file by MPEG, JPG, WAV and etc.
Internet Tools	Internet Explorer 6
	Netscape Messenger
	Netscape Nevigator 4.3
	QuickTime Player
	RealPlayer
	DivX Player 2.0
	Secure Shell Client
	WinAMP - MP3 player
	Windows Media Player
	WS_FTP 95 LE
Microsoft Office XP	Microsoft Access
	Microsoft Excel
	Microsoft FrontPage
	Microsoft Outlook
	Microsoft Photo Editor
	Microsoft Powerpoint
	Microsoft Word
	Outlook Express
Utilities	Acrobat 5.0 - To create .PDF files
	Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.0 - Tools to burn Audio CD, Data CD and VCD.
	Dariolius - Split large file to smaller files with user specified size
	DynaDoc Reader - 32Bit
	Ghostscript 7.04 - Postscript Engine
	GSview 4.3 - View .PS file
	OfficeScan 95 - Antivirus application
	Winsplit - Split large file to smaller files
	WinZip 8.0 - To Compress/decompress file in .ZIP format