This directory contains the Berkeley MPEG Tools distribution. You should
start with the most recent FAQ.  Some information is included in the
distribution, but you can also get more information by visiting our WWW
site (http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/mpeg/index.html) which includes
links to introductory material on MPEG, freely distributed movies, and other 
software.

This version of the Berkeley MPEG Tools packages together the decoder 
(mpeg_play), the encoder (mpeg_encode), and three analysis tools (mpeg_stat,
mpeg_blocks, and mpeg_bits).  Our last estimate was that over 60,000 copies 
of the decoder have been FTP'd since the first release in November 1991,
and over 15,000 copies of the encoder have been FTP'd since it was released 
in July 1993.

For other information on multimedia research at U.C. Berkeley, see the home
page for the Plateau Multimedia Research Group.
	http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/plateau.html

Further about the FTP site is included in INDEX.  See ANNOUNCE for our
posted announcement of the tools.

(Last updated: May 5, 1995)