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+amp MPEG audio decoder readme file (version 0.7.5)
+(C) Tomislav Uzelac 1996,1997
+
+amp is free software and can be _used_ freely by anyone. If you want to
+do anything else with it, be sure to check the Legal section of this
+document for legal issues.
+
+THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THIS PROGRAM. Please check out the Legal section
+of this document.
+
+1. Introduction
+2. Installation
+3. Running
+4. Feedback
+5. Contributing
+6. Legal
+
+
+1. Introduction
+
+amp (Audio Mpeg Player) is an MPEG audio decoder which I originally started
+putting together as a side project of the MPEG hardware design project at
+FER/Zagreb - just to confirm my knowledge of the standard. It works with
+both MPEG1 and MPEG2 audio streams (except for the multichannel extensions
+defined in MPEG2), layers 2 and 3.
+
+There is a gui for amp, written in Tcl/Tk by Edouard Lafargue. It is
+available at the amp home site ftp://ftp.rasip.fer.hr
+
+Another gui supported is the Sajber Jukebox, written by Joel Lindholm.
+
+The following people contributed their time and knowledge to amp:
+Karl Anders Oygard, Ilkka Karvinen, Lutz Vieweg, Dan Nelson,
+Edouard Lafargue, Andrew Richards, George Colouris,
+Dmitry Boldyrev, Andy Lo A Foe, Thomas Sailer, Justin Frankel
+
+amp home location is
+ ftp://ftp.rasip.fer.hr/pub/mpeg/
+
+and the mailing list: send 'HELP' in the body of the message to:
+ multimedia@rasip.fer.hr
+
+If you want to find out more about MPEG, best places to start are
+ http://www.mpeg.org
+ http://www.mpeg2.de
+
+
+2. Installation
+
+Installation should be simple enough if amp was ported to your system,
+just do a
+
+./configure
+make
+
+You can edit the makefile further to suit your system. If configure fails
+to make a usable Makefile, you'll _have_ to edit it yourself.
+
+Linux users should try real-time playing support, as described
+in doc/realtime.txt. Some people that might pass on this feature are
+those with slower machines (i.e. 486's), or SMP systems (see the
+doc/linuxrealtime.txt file).
+Some versions of the linux C library produce an error when compiling
+amp with realtime support. A quick fix is to edit /usr/include/sched.h
+and replace _P in the offending line with __P.
+
+./configure --enable-realtime
+make
+chown root.root amp
+chmod u+s amp
+
+... this requires /dev/dsp to be both world readable and writeable. If you
+have a special group for people allowed to use the sound device (for
+instance, a group called sound), you can do a:
+
+chmod g+s amp
+
+or make your audio card world read/writeable (not recomended)
+
+chmod o+rw /dev/dsp*
+
+3. Running:
+
+'amp -h' gives you usage & options. If your computer is on the slower
+side, direct playback might not work, but you can decode it
+to .wav or raw pcm and play it later.
+
+
+4. Feedback
+
+Send in your makefiles, opinions, bugreports, fixes; anything related to this
+program. You can also send me unlimited amounts of money, sugar, milk, etc.
+
+If you find any mpeg audio files that amp has trouble decoding, please tell
+me about this via e-mail <tuzelac@rasip.fer.hr>.
+
+
+5. Contributing
+
+Please contribute to amp. If you want to know what is going on in amp
+development, you can join the developers mailing list
+
+ mpeg_audio_developers@rasip.fer.hr
+
+There are certain debugging facilities that I made in amp, but are disabled
+in the current release (they are neither nice nor user-friendly). If anyone
+enhances them (they are in dump.c) to the point that they're actually
+usable I'll be happy to include the changes in the release. I think this
+kind of debug output would be very useful to people studying these audio
+algorithms.
+
+
+6. Legal
+
+This software can be used freely for any purpose. It can be distributed
+freely, as long as it is not sold commercially without permission from
+Tomislav Uzelac <tuzelac@rasip.fer.hr>. However, including this software
+on CD_ROMs containing other free software is explicitly permitted even
+when a modest distribution fee is charged for the CD, as long as this
+software is not a primary selling argument for the CD.
+
+Building derived versions of this software is permitted, as long as they
+are not sold commercially without permission from Tomislav Uzelac
+<tuzelac@rasip.fer.hr>. Any derived versions must be clearly marked as
+such, and must be called by a name other than amp. Any derived versions
+must retain this copyright notice.
+
+/* This license is itself copied from Tatu Ylonen's ssh package. It does
+ * not mention being copyrighted itself :)
+ */
+
+THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THIS PROGRAM - whatsoever. You use it entirely
+at your risk, and neither Tomislav Uzelac, nor FER will be liable for
+any damages that might occur to your computer, software, etc. in
+consequence of you using this freeware program.
+
+
+Tomislav Uzelac
+<tuzelac@rasip.fer.hr>