This directory contains MPEG information, software, and movies.  You should
start with the most recent FAQ which is mpeg30faq.txt.  The Berkeley
MPEG1 video encoder and decoder software are also here (see README-decoder
and README-encoder for details).  Our last estimate was that approximately
10,000 copies of the decoder have been FTP'd since the first release in
November 1991.  Almost 2,000 copies of the encoder have been FTP'd since
it was released in July 1993.

Finally, we maintain a collection of MPEG movies on-line in the directory
movies.  Most of the movies are short, silent videos.  Some are I-frame only
encodings and others are full MPEG encodings.  An average of 7,500 movies per
month have been FTP'd since we began keeping statistics in June 1993.

You might also want to look at papers describing our work in ../papers.
In particular, the file ../papers/research.txt is an overview of our research
program and ../papers/Mpeg93.ps.Z and ../papers/MM93Talk.ps.Z are the
paper and presentation slides, respectively, on our decoder given at
ACM Multimedia '93 in Anaheim, CA.
	Larry Rowe

(Last updated: October 22, 1993)