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- ABOUT
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- libmimic is an open source video encoding/decoding library for Mimic V2.x-
- encoded content (fourCC: ML20), which is the encoding used by MSN Messenger
- for webcam conversations.
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- It was written because there was no third-party MSN-client that supported
- this feature due to this proprietary/unknown codec involved. I didn't like
- this lack of interoperability, so I decided to do something about it. After
- studying the official MSN-client a little closer, it became clear that the
- codec involved was statically linked into the executable, so there was no
- easy way to use the codec code through Wine. So for fun, and challenge, I
- reverse-engineered the original implementation by studying the massive
- amount of assembly code involved, and after a lot of hard work I ended
- up with this implementation in C.
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- It should be noted that reverse-engineering for interoperability is 100%
- legal here in Norway (and in most European countries).
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- THANKS
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- Special thanks to Rob Taylor and the rest of the Farsight-team for all
- the feedback and inspiration during development, you guys rock! :-)
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- BOTTOM LINE
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- If you like my work and decide to use it in your project, please feel free
- to credit me. I put a lot of time and hard work into this, so I hope others
- will find it useful.
-
- Well, enough chit chat, enjoy! :-)
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- Ole André Vadla Ravnås
- oleavr at gmail dot com
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