Step 1: Check your Hardware!

You need recent hardware to run MXWendler: your graphics board has to support pixel shaders. This is the case with NVidia > 7000 and ATI > X1600. Intel GMA does not work. Reference driver for NVidia is either 175.19 or 182.50.

Step 2: Download and Install

Get the installer, install and run. Do you see the main application window? Good. Then proceed.

Step 3: the first Check: Images

So you can see the application window now. Open any JPEG image (File->Open). Can you see it? Wonderful. MXWendler is up and running! Sometimes applications crash at this stage when using NVidia hardware. Disable OpenGL threading in the control panel.

Step 4: the second Check: Flash

Now open any swf file. Can you see it? Perfect. If not, on Windows, install the official Macromedia flash player.

Step 5: the fourth Check: AVIs

Open an avi file on your system. Do you see it? Perfect! If not, check another avi. AVI is a container format. Try DivX, try Microsoft Video1.

Step 6: the fifth Check: Capture Devices!

plug in any live device you can see in the windows explorer. Then fire up MXWendler. Do you see an entry in Settings -> Media -> Live Devices? Perfect! click on it. Try to open it. Does it work? Then mark it as known.

Step 7: it works, but video hangs occasionally

You are disk limited. Here they are, the three MOST IMPORTANT SECRETS ABOUT VIDEO DISKS:

- defragment your drives
  No gpu will cope with a constantly moving disk head.

- do not use more than 50% of your disk.
  Your disk begins with the outer -faster- sectors and will continue to the slower inner ones. The outer sectors are up to 5x faster than the inner ones.

- separate disks.
  By any chance, separate the system from your video disk. You wont get any fast video from a disk where the OS (no matter win or osx) contiously pages memory.