			     GLMPEG_PLAY
		     Version 1.1 - 2 August, 1994
				   
		Copyright (C) 1994 by Gregory P. Ward
		       (greg@pet.mni.mcgill.ca)


glmpeg_play is an SGI-specific MPEG player based on the Berkeley
decoder (available as mpeg_play-2.0.tar.Z via anonymous ftp from
toe.cs.berkeley.edu, in the directory /pub/multimedia/mpeg).  The MPEG
decoding code is taken more-or-less directly from the Berkeley
program; the main strength of glmpeg_play is its its ability to buffer
frames to disk or memory in order to speed up playback and provide a
wide range of playback options.  These include pause, single-step and
continuous play in either direction, jump to beginning/end of movie,
automatic resizing of the movie with its window, and a full-screen
mode.

glmpeg_play is distributed in source and IRIX binary form.  Note that
the binary included in the glmpeg_play-1.1.tar file was compiled under
IRIX 4 with the shared version of the GL library.

To compile glmpeg_play, you will need the MPEG library, which was
developed in conjunction with glmpeg_play and is essentially the
Berkeley decoding source with (hopefully) all X11-specific stuff
removed, and a useful, documented front-end put on.

glmpeg_play is available via anonymous FTP from yorick.mni.mcgill.ca
in /pub/mpeg.  (Note that this is due to change to ftp.mni.mcgill.ca
any time now.)
