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1) Introduction
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XviD is a high performance and high quality MPEG-4 video de-/encoding
solution.

The XviD package currently consists of three parts:

- xvidcore: the main MPEG-4 de-/encoding library

- dshow: windows direct show decoder filter which links against
	   xvidcore to allow MPEG-4 playback on windows os

- vfw: video for windows GUI


2) Documentation
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- xvidcore/doc/README: some general information

- xvidcore/doc/xvid-decoding.txt: description of the XviD decoding API

- xvidcore/doc/xvid-encoding.txt: description of the XviD encoding API


3) Licensing:
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- XviD is licensed as a whole under the terms of the GNU General Public
  License. This is true for all files belonging to XviD except for those
  which specifically carry a different license header.