bbMPEG.DLL, AVI2MPG2.EXE and AVI2MPG2_VFW Version 1.23. By Brent Beyeler.
Released as freeware. Freely distributable.

ABOUT

  bbMPEG and AVI2MPG2 are Windows programs that convert media files to MPEG
  files. They are freeware, and the source code is available although you
  will need Borland's C++ Builder 4.0 or higher and the ADOBE Premiere 5.x
  SDK to compile it as is.

INSTALLATION

  To use the software WITH Adobe Premiere 5.x (will not work with version 4.2)
  copy the file bbMPEG.DLL to your Premiere 5.x plug-in directory and rename
  it bbMPEG.PRM. After doing this you should see it loaded when Premiere is
  started and it should be added as an output option.

  To use the software WITHOUT Adobe Premiere, just create a folder, copy all
  of the included files to it, set up a shortcut to point to AVI2MPG2.EXE or
  AVI2MPG2_VFW.EXE and run the shortcut.

  The file AVI2MPG2.EXE is basically a front end for the DLL so it can be
  used without having to have ADOBE Premiere. It just calls the DLL as
  Premiere would. AVI2MPG2.EXE uses DirectShow to access media files.
  AVI2MPG2_VFW.EXE is also included if you have problems with AVI2MPG2.EXE
  (see the help file) AVI2MPG2_VFW uses the older Video For Windows interface
  to access AVI file and it may not open newer AVI files.

  NOTE: Please delete all *.PAR and *.PRJ files created by previous versions
  of bbMPEG and AVI2MPG2 as they are not compatible with this version. This
  includes the DEFAULT.PAR file.

REQUIREMENTS

  bbMPEG requires Win95, Win98 or WinNT. It may work with Win31 if Win32s
  is installed but I have not tried it. AVI2MPG2 also requires Microsoft's
  DirectShow to be installed. All programs require a Pentium processor.

NOTES

  The speed of this software will vary greatly depending on the setting of
  the motion vector lengths. Generally, the more motion in the video the
  longer the lengths need to be to reduce artifacts.

  The maximum video resolution supported is 1920x1152 for MPEG-2 and 4095x4095
  for MPEG-1 and the audio encoding only supports 16-bit samples sizes and
  either 32 Khz, 44.1 Khz or 48 Khz sample rates.

  The software generates MPEG-1 (ISO/IEC 11172-2) or MPEG-2 (ISO/IEC 13818-2)
  video streams, MPEG-1 (ISO/IEC 11172-3, layer 1 and 2 only) audio streams
  and MPEG-1 (ISO/IEC 11172-1) or MPEG-2 (ISO/IEC 13818-1) program streams
  or most combination of the above. The software can also just multiplex
  MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 program stream without doing any encoding. It can also
  multiplex AC3 audio streams into MPEG-2 program streams.

CREDITS

  The video encoding was derived from MSSG (MPEG Software Simulation Group)
  MPEG-2 video codec, version 1.2. The audio encoding was derived from the
  MPEG/Audio Software Simulation Group's audio codec, version 4.0. The
  multiplexing was derived from Christoph Moar's MPLEX, version 1.1. Visit
  www.mpeg.org for links to all of the above software.

  Many thanks indeed to the above for providing the guts of the software.

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS

  If you have any questions or comments feel free to contact me at:

  beyeler@home.com

  Visit bbMPEG's web site at (source available here):

  http://members.home.net/beyeler/bbmpeg.html