XMPLAY [Version 1.0] - Wed Mar 16 17:47:41 MET 1994
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XMPLAY [Version 1.0]
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XMPLAY is a very nice directory-browser under X11 to use XMPEG,
the interactive X11-MPEG-player.

MPEG is a video-format described by the ISO-standard ISO CD11172.
This implementation here can handle MPEG-stream written down
at the MPEG-group-meeting in Paris '92. It can handle IPB-frames
but no system- nor audio-information.

Additional you get a little utility called MPEGINFO, showing you, if called
with the filename of a MPEG-file the most important parameter it can read
dirrectly from its header, like size, picture rate or frame-style.

It should work under nearly every system, 'cause it's programed without
MOTIF, the X11-Toolit or other stupid things, that are always causing
problems. It only needs the X11-library, no matter if you're using
Release 3, 4 or Release 5.

In addition it has lots of defines to let it run under BSD, SYSV, ISC,
Solaris, SunOS, A/UX, SCO or XENIX and you don't have to hack a difficult
Imake- or Makefile and you will not have trouble with build-in pathnames !!!

It's specially made for those systems, that don't have super hardware
or that have problems with the Toolkit or MOTIF.

See the other README.*-files for more information.


XMPEG [Version 1.0]
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XMPEG is a MPEG-video-player based on the MPEG-widget-implementation
from Jim Frost and the MPEG-movie-player "mpeg_play" from the Portable
Video Research Group at Berkeley.

It just adds a few buttons and is normally getting called
from XMPLAY, but can be used as stand-alone to include into other
programs. Its programmed with the same methods than XMPLAY.

See the subdirectory 'xmpeg' for more information.


MPEG at all !
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If you are not familiar with the theme of MPEG, try to find the following
documents either in the Usenet or Internet:

mpegfa30.txt    the Frequently Asked Question file written by Frank Gadegast
mpegfa30.zip    the above and a additional INDEX-MPEG-file.

You can ftp the second file from 'quepasa.cs.tu-berlin.de' from the
directory '/pub/msdos/dos/graphics'.



Comments:
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If you get problems (not really possible) to compile it or if you have
comments send them to the authors, reachable at:

	phade@cs.tu-berlin.de (responsible for compiling and X11)
	jm@cs.tu-berlin.de (responsible for the mpeg-code) or
	brain@cs.tu-berlin.de
	

The source-code is edited with Tab-Space 4. If you like to hack around in
the source-code, do so. I don't care, if you get problems.


COMPILING and INSTALL
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Read the file 'INSTALL' about how to compile.


Enjoy MPEG, Phade

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FRANK GADEGAST Leibnizstr. 30, 10625 Berlin, GERMANY
                             Fon/Fax: +49 30 3128103
phade@cs.tu-berlin.de