README FILE for MpegTV Player 1.0
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Company: MpegTV
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Product: MpegTV Player (aka mtv)
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Version: 1.0
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Description
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MpegTV Player (mtv) is a realtime software MPEG-1 Video+Audio Player
and VCD Player. It supports full-screen mode, can play from file,
pipe, network URL, or Video CD.
    
URL: http://www.mpegtv.com/
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Contact Information: info@mpegtv.com
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License Terms/Restrictions
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Please read the LICENSE file.  You may be liable if you download and
use the software and do not agree with the terms of the license.

Installation instructions, FAQ, support and other informations,
are available at http://www.mpegtv.com/download.html.

Installation instructions for Red-Hat users in README-mtv-redhat.

    Freeware
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    You can use the command-line MPEG player "mtvp" completely free
    of charge for personal, educational and non-profit use only. 

    Shareware (for Linux and FreeBSD only)
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    MpegTV Player 1.0 for Linux and FreeBSD is Shareware for
    personal, educational and non-profit use only. Commercial or
    government users must purchase a Commercial license. 

    For platforms other than Linux and FreeBSD a Commercial license
    is required.

    Commercial license:
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    You can evaluate the software free of charge for 90 days.
    After the evaluation period you are required to purchase a
    commercial license. 

Registration, pricing and ordering informations are on-line
at "http://www.mpegtv.com/download.html#price".

Installation Requirements
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About 1 MB on /usr/X11/bin
About 0.7 MB on /usr/X11/lib

You must run an X-server in order to use mtv or mtvp.
You need a audio board installed and configured if you
want to hear sound.

Installation Instructions
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Please refer to the mtv page at http://www.mpegtv.com/download.html
for more detailed installation instructions.

mtv requires the xforms library and may require the SDL library.
If those libraries are not installed on your system, you can
download them from our ftp site:
ftp://ftp.mpegtv.com/pub/mpeg/mpegtv/player/

If you want to use the full-screen mode, you need to run mtv as root
or mtvp must be set-iud root. To set-uid root, become root and type:

$ chown root mtvp; chmod +s mtvp

For details, see file /usr/doc/mtv/README-Fullscreen

**** SECURITY WARNING!!! ****
Setting the 's' bit of mtvp (set-uid root) creates security holes
and allows a user to perform privileged operations.  Therefore if
you have a system that must be secure, you must remove the 's' flag
(set-iud) of mtvp with:

$ chmod -s mtvp

Please refer to the mtv page at http://www.mpegtv.com/download.html
for more infos, FAQ, on-line manual, links to MPEG bitstreams etc.

Xforms
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The MpegTV Player 1.0 graphic front-end (mtv) was developed with
Xforms and MpegTV SDK 1.0.

Xforms is a library for building graphic user interfaces. See
http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms for details.

SDK
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MpegTV SDK 1.0 is a toolkit for playing real-time MPEG from any X window
application.  The entire source code of mtv is available in our SDK.
You can download MpegTV SDK 1.0 from http://www.mpegtv.com/sdk.html


Enjoy!