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- bbMPEG.DLL, AVI2MPG2.EXE and AVI2MPG2_VFW Version 1.24 beta. 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
- (or higher) 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.
-
- 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 and it can multiplex
- two audio streams (MPEG or AC3) 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
-
-