
  Readme.txt                                          June, 2000.


    VideoMach, version 2.2.1
    Copyright 1997-2000 Zeljko Nikolic and Robert Tibljas


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  ABOUT VIDEOMACH
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  VideoMach is a powerful audio/video builder and converter. 
  Use it to build video clips from still images, add music to 
  videos, extract audio tracks and pictures from movies, or 
  just convert media clips from one file format to another.

  Take advantage of its abilities to change the frame rate, 
  video codec, color depth and audio format of a media clip. 
  Resize your video content in non-standard ways rarely found 
  in other software. Enhance video content by applying video 
  filters such as sharpen, emboss, gamma correction, brightness, 
  contrast, saturation, resample, crop, rotate, and dosens of 
  others. 

  VideoMach is the successor to Fast Movie Processor.

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  SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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  * Windows 95, 98, NT4 or compatible with DirectX 3 or better
  * 2 MB of disk space
  * AVIFIL32.DLL, MSVFW32.DLL and MSACM32.DLL 
    in Windows System folder
  * Display adapter that supports (and is set to) Hi-Color or 
    True-Color

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  LICENSE - REGISTERING - DISTRIBUTION
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  For details read files License.txt and Order.txt (run 
  "License Agreement" or "How to Order" from VideoMach's 
  program group)

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  SUPPORTED FILE FORMATS
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  AVI Windows Audio Video Interleaved
      (avi)
  BAY Bayer Image, (read only)
      (bay)
  BMP Windows Device Independent Bitmap, 8/15/24bit
      (bmp,dib,rle)
  FLC Autodesk FLIC/FLIC-Pro, 8bit
      (fli,flc)
  GIF Graphics Interchange Format, (read only)
      (gif,giff)
  HAV High quality Audio Video
      (hav)
  JPG Joint Photographic Expert Group, JFIF 1.02
      (jpg,jpeg,jif,jfif,jpe,J)
  MPA MPEG Audio Layer I/II/III, MPEG-1/2 (MP1/MP3 read only)
      (mp3,mpa,mp2)
  MPG Moving Pictures Expert Group
      (mpg,mpeg,mpe,m1v,m2v)
  PCX Zsoft Paintbrush, 8/24bit
      (pcx)
  PNG Portable Network Graphics
      (png)
  PNM Portable Image, 8/15/24bit
      (pnm,ppm,pgm)
  RAS Sun Raster Image, 8/24/32bit
      (ras,sun)
  RGB Silicon Graphics Image, 8/24/32bit
      (rgb,rgba,bw,sgi)
  TGA Truevision Targa, 8/15/24/32bit
      (tga)
  TIF Tagged Image File Format
      (tif,tiff)
  WAV Windows Wave Sound
      (wav)
  XPM X-Pixmap
      (xpm)

  WHY WRITING LZW COMPRESSED GIF/TIFF IMAGES IS NOT SUPPORTED
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  Writing LZW compressed files is unsupported for legal reasons.
  Our advice is to use PNG format for storing compressed images, 
  it's patent free, supports all bit depths and produces smaller 
  files than GIF/TIFF or any other lossless image format. Also, 
  an animated GIF successor will be available in the future 
  (mostly depends on creators of the upcoming MNG standard). 
  Here is the web page with official WWW Consortium 
  recommendation regarding PNG file format:
  http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Graphics/PNG/

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  ABOUT HAV FILE FORMAT
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  HAV is our own file format made for real-time playing and 
  archiving of high-quality audio and video, such as rendered 
  animations. HAV format keeps the original image quality (uses 
  lossless compression). In other words HAV supports 100% 
  uncompressed quality but still saves on disk space as opposed
  to uncompressed video. Other famous formats, like AVI, JPEG 
  and MPEG reduce the image quality each time you save the image 
  (more times you save, more details you loose). HAV compresses 
  in most cases twice as good as FLI/FLC and supports 256, 64k 
  and 16.7M colors (FLI/FLC supports only up to 256 colors).
  Player for HAV clips is available at our web site. Work on 
  freely available HAV library for programmers (source code 
  included) is in progress.

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  CREDITS GO TO
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  * GNU-CC team and Mumit Khan
      GNU Compiler Collection / gcc-2.95.2-mingw32
  * Jordan Russel
      Inno Setup
  * TaFWeb Software
      ScriptMaker for Inno Setup
  * Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis and others
      The GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program
  * Mark Adler, Richard B. Wales, Jean-loup Gailly,
    Onno van der Linden and Kai Uwe Rommel
      ZIP compression and file packaging utility
  * Glen McDiarmid
      for his great ideas and suggestions

  VideoMach is based in part on the work of 
  the following people:
  * Independent JPEG Group
      JPEG library release 6b
  * Group 42, Inc. and all contributing authors
      PNG reference library version 1.0.6
  * Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
      ZLIB library version 1.1.3
  * Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics, Inc.
      TIFF library version 3.4 beta 037
  * MPEG Software Simulation Group
      MPEG-2 Encoder / Decoder, Version 1.2
  * ISO MPEG Audio Subgroup Software Simulation Group
      MPEG-2 Audio Simulation Software Distribution 10
  * The Regents of the University of California
      BERKELEY MPEG TOOLS, Version 1.0, Release 2
  * The Multimedia Communications Lab, Boston University
      MPEG-I MULTI-STREAM SYSTEM-LAYER ENCODER/DECODER PAIR 
      v1.2 Release
  * GROUPE BULL
      XPM library version 3.4k
  * Armin Sander of Digital SimpleX 
      Audio Compression Manager public header file
  * Erik Unger
      DirectX public header files
  * Marco van Hylckama Vlieg
      Wilber icon

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  HOME PAGE / CONTACT EMAIL
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  Home page:
    http://www.videomach.com/VideoMach.html
   
  Main web site:
    gromada.com

  E-mail:
    info@gromada.com

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