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MPEG Layers I and II for Cool Edit
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This MPEG implementation is covered under the GNU General Public License, so
the source code for Cool Edit's MPEG implementation is available upon request.
No special optimization was performed (which means it will be about 1998
before Cool Edit will be able to read MPEG II files in real time with this
current module on common PCs).

MPEG audio data is saved without any headers, and in Intel byte ordering format.
Some ShareWare (and retail) players are available that will play files saved
by Cool Edit.  The Xing audio player is one of them.

The source code for the Cool Edit file filters was taken from the AMPEG.ZIP
MPEG source and modified to work with Cool Edit's file filters API.  The make
files are for Microsoft Visual C/C++ 1.5, and compile with a few warnings in
the original MPEG source, but all works fine.

The encoder is separate from the decoder, so there are two directories:  
mpencode and mpdecode.

-David Johnston
 Syntrillium Software Corporation

