Cinepak XAnim Video Decompression DLL

  1) Copyright and Licensing Notice 

     Cinepak (r) and the Cinepak logo are trademarks of Radius Inc and
     may be registered in certain jurisdictions.  Copyright 1995 Radius Inc.  
     All rights reserved.

     For more information on tools for creating Cinepak and other video
     content, please contact Radius.

     cinepak@radius.com
     http://www.radius.com

     The Cinepak XAnim Video Decompression DLLs are owned by 
     Radius Inc and are licensed to the user, not sold or given away.


     By Using this Software, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of
     this agreement. Do not use this software until you have carefully
     read and agreed to the following terms and conditions. If you do
     not agree to the terms of this agreement, then remove all copies
     of this Software.

     RESTRICTIONS:

       You MAY:

         1: Freely use this Software in conjunction with XAnim.

       You MAY NOT without written permission from Radius Inc:

         1: Use this Software for any application other than XAnim.
         2: Sell or distribute this Software.
         3: Sublicense this Software.
         4: Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble this Software.

     WARRANTY: This Software is provided "AS IS". There are no warranties
     of any kind either express or implied including warranties of
     merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose.

     LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: Neither Radius Inc nor the Author shall be 
     liable for any loss of profits, loss of use, loss of data, interruptions
     of business, nor for indirect, special, incidental or consequential
     damages of any kind whether under this agreement or otherwise, even
     if advised of the possibility of such damages.

     DEFINITIONS:

        Software: XAnim Cinepak Decompression DLL precompiled for various
                  machine platforms and OSes.

        Author:   Mark Podlipec (podlipec@ici.net)

  2) Description

     This module will allow XAnim 2.80.0 or later to view the video 
     content of AVI and Quicktime files that are using the following 
     video codecs:

                Radius Cinepak 24 bits Color   CVID
                Radius Cinepak  8 bits Gray    CVID



  3) Uncompressing
    
     Already done if you are reading this.

  4) Installing

     You should now have two files. This readme file and another
     file that ends in a ".xa" (from now on I'm referring to this
     file as the .XA file).


        1) Create the directory "/usr/local/xanim/mods" if it doesn't
           already exist

        2) Move or copy the .XA file into that directory. 


     NOTE: You can use a different directory that the one used
     in steps 1 and 2 above provided that you set the 
     XANIM_MOD_DIR environment variable to list the directory 
     or directories you chose instead.

     For example. If you place them in "/global/xanim/mods" the you
     need to:

           setenv XANIM_MOD_DIR /global/xanim/mods

     Another example. If you also have some experimental ones in the
     directory: "/home/test/mods"   in addition to the stable ones
     in the directory: "/usr/local/xanim/mods"  then you would need to:

           setenv XANIM_MOD_DIR /usr/local/xanim/mods:/home/test/mods

     WARNING: While it shouldn't cause an error if the same .XA file
     is loaded several times, it isn't necessary and eats up additional
     memory.
    
     
  5) Using

     XAnim will check to see if XANIM_MOD_DIR is defined, if so it
     will search the ":" separated list of directories for files
     starting with "vid_" and ending with ".xa".  It will attempt
     to load any it finds.  If XANIM_MOD_DIR is not set, XAnim will
     only look in "/usr/local/xanim/mods" for the same type of files.

  6) Reporting Problems.
  
     Send email to me at  podlipec@ici.net   

     
  7) Unsupported platforms/OSs

     I will need one of two things:

	1) CrossCompiler capable fo producing shared libraries
           for the platform in question and must run on a 
           Linux x86 platform.

        OR

        2) An outright gift of the machine/OS in question with
           a working C/C++ compiler and linker installed.

           
      Remote accounts aren't feasible since that'd be distruting
      the source code I'm under NDA on.

      Temporarily borrowing a machine isn't worth the hassle and 
      doesn't leave me with a permament solution.
    
  


Mark
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Mark Podlipec
podlipec@ici.net