===============================
Wmp2Split Version 0.2 Shareware
   (c)1995 by PHADE Software

 Tues Jun 27 22:27:16 EDT 1995
===============================

This MPEG-Audio Editor starts to work, but is still on the first
steps, has still a few bugs and does not work with every stream.
Try on own risk. If you want to have more features and bug fixes,
start registrating.

The Shareware-Version only works with short MPEG Audio Files.
Get the full version for full support. See below.

If you want to know more about MPEG, read the file MPCDINFO.TXT !
Or check the Web online-documentation under

	http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~phade/mpeg.html


Install
-------

Set the following section in WIN.INI before starting
to point to your MPEG Audio Application.

	[Wmp2Split]
	Player=<path to your MPEG Audio Player>

so f.e this would be a legal entry.

	[Wmp2Split]
	Player=c:\windows\cdrom\mpegcd\xing_ply

and that will be ok too (if you have a MPEG board)

	[Wmp2Split]
	Player=mplayer

The PD MPEG-1 Audio-Player from XingTechnology called
MPGAUDIO.ZIP can be found on most sites.


Bugs
----

o appending only works, when the streams were coded
  by the SAME MPEG Audio encoder
o appending does'nt look for sequence ending codes,
  appended part maybe played in "silence"
o temporary files don't get deleted after terminating
o temporary files appear in the source directory



SHAREWARE
---------

WMP2SPLT is inexpensive shareware. If you are continuing using
it after a 30 day trial-period, please send a letter containing
the filled and signed registration-form and the little donation
of 30 $ or 40 DM in cash to the address in the REGISTER.FRM-file.

Permission to use this software and its documentation for testing
purpose or registered commercial use is hereby granted. The re-
distribution of this software and its documentation is allowed
provided that the archive remains complete, that this author notice
will appear in all copies and a commercial re-distribution is reported
to and certified and checked by PHADE Software.

In return you will receive the full support tool via normal mail
on a floppy-disk or better, via uuencoded e-mail.

ATTENTION: A registration is recommended for any commercial use.

ATTENTION: The full-licensed version is restricted to a local
           area netword (company) or a privat single host.

Please keep me up to date with everything thats new about MPEG
by sending new source-code, utils, documents concerning MPEG-1,
MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 to the e-mail-adress below.


Instead of a help-file
----------------------

Two features are implemented:

o cutting
o appending

of MPEG-1 Audio-only files. These files usally have the extension
.mp2 or .mpa. I prefer the extension .m1a for (m)PEG (1) (a)udio.
The only special thing about WMP2SPLT is, that it can perform its
actions directly on the binary, compressed audio-stream instead of
having to decode and then recompress. The only tool I know that can
do this so far, is the new Encoder-Software from Xing Technology,
but it cost more than $ 1.500 !

To start with WMP2SPLT you load a MPEG-1 Audiofile via File|Open source.
After scanning that new stream (what will take a while), WMP2SPLT will
display useful information about that stream, most important the
number of 'frames'.

Now you can set a selection via Edit|Set selection. Enter a start and a
end frame in the dialog box and press 'Play selection'. After copying
parts of the original you can listen to the selection, that you were
cutting out. Press 'Ok' in the dialog box to keep this selection or
'Cancel' to forget about it.

If you were pressing 'Ok', you have a 'active' selection, meaning
when you now perform one of the action, like saving or appending,
the selection will be used. Re-open the source file to undo this
selection.

Saving:  With a 'active' selection, the selected frames of the source
         stream will be saved to a new stream via File|Save as.
         Is there no 'active' selection, the whole source file can be
         saved to a new location and name.

Append:  With a 'active' selection, the selected frames of the source
         stream can be appended to another stream via File|Append to.
         Is there no 'active' selection, the whole source file can be
         appended to another one.

Playing: The 'active' selection or if there is none, the whole file
         can be played via Edit|Play source. If a selection was saved
         or appended, it can be played via Edit|Play target.

Supported are standard MPEG-1 Audiostreams and even now, the streams
coming from the Cutmaster Software, which produces files with the
extension .snd or .s48. To procuce normal MPEG-1 Audiostreams out
of the later, skip at least the first 6 frames ...


That should do, Phade
 
----------------------------------------------------
PHADE SOFTWARE Leibnizstr. 30, 10625 Berlin, GERMANY
Inh. Frank Gadegast          Fon/Fax: +49 30 3128103

phade@contrib.de   http://www.is.in-berlin.de/~phade