CYUV XAnim Video Decompression DLL

  1) Copyright and Licensing Notice 

     The CYUV Video Codec is Copyrighted by Creative Technology Ltd, 1994-1996.
     All rights reserved.

     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:

         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 Creative Technology 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 CYUV 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 files that are using the following video codecs:

                Creative CYUV   CYUV


  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