
  Readme.txt                                          June, 2000.


    Multimedia Conversion Library, version 2.1.2
    Copyright 1998-2000 Robert Tibljas and Zeljko Nikolic.


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  ABOUT MULTIMEDIA CONVERSION LIBRARY (MCL)
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  Please note that this is not a product for end users, it's 
  aimed strictly to software developers.

  Multimedia Conversion Library ("MCL") is a 32-bit programming 
  library that adds powerful video and audio conversion 
  functions to your applications. It supports great number of 
  widely used video and audio formats, such as AVI, MPEG, MP3, 
  FLIC, HAV, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TGA, TIFF... to name only those 
  most popular. MCL is made to run under Windows 95, 98, NT4 
  and compatible systems. Use it with C/C++, Delphi, Visual 
  Basic and almost any other 32-bit development tool.

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  SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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  * Windows 95, 98, NT4 or compatible
  * 2.2 MB of disk space
  * AVIFIL32.DLL, MSVFW32.DLL and MSACM32.DLL
    in Windows System folder

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  SUPPORTED DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
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  DIRECTLY BY MCL
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  * GNU-CC / mingw32
  * MS Visual C++
  * MS Visual Basic
  * Borland C++
  * Borland C++Builder
  * Borland Delphi

  MCL can be ported to all other programming environments which
  support dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) but be aware that MCL
  is a 32-bit DLL and works only with 32-bit development tools.

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  LICENSE - REGISTERING - DISTRIBUTION
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  For details read files License.txt and RegInfo.txt (run 
  "License Agreement" or "How to Order" from MCL'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, MPEG-1/2
      (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)

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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 (source code included) for 
  programmers 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
  * Mark Adler, Richard B. Wales, Jean-loup Gailly,
    Onno van der Linden and Kai Uwe Rommel
      ZIP compression and file packaging utility
  * Luis Villa (Mexico)
      Bayer file format specs

  MCL 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

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  HOME PAGE / CONTACT EMAIL
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  Home page:
    http://gromada.com/MCL.html

  Main web site:
    gromada.com

  E-mail: 
    info@gromada.com

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