Readme.txt                                                     September 15, 2006


Area61 VideoBrowser  Ver.5.0.3 Freeware
						Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Area61.NET

Summary
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A multimedia player that plays MPEG/AVI/WMV/RM files, and supports snapshot/thumbnail creation.

Description
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Area61 VideoBrowser is a multimedia player that plays back MPEG/AVI/WMV/RM files in
normal/fast/slow/frame-by-frame/repeat-loop/special effects playing modes. You can 
also get shapshot images of any size from a movie file. Every frame of the selected 
portion of the movie file can be converted to JPG/PNG/BMP images. SHIFT with mouse 
dragging allows you to crop snapshot images.

On the thumbnail view, you can browser an outline of the movie by browsing a number 
of thumbnails taken from the movie file, and start playing the movie by clicking one.

Furthermore, the software allows you to seek a movie file by specifying timecode, and
see datecodes (recording date and time) extracted from DV-captured AVI files. 
The software also supports audio files and image files.

The software is free and does not contain any spyware.
A user's manual is available through http://www.area61.net/top/

Area61 VideoBrowser has been popular in Japan since 2002. It has been downloaded
more than 300,000 times.


Shortcuts
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SPC			Pause/Play
Enter			Pause/Play

Right arrow		Fast forward
Left arrow		Fast reverse
SHIFT + Right arrow	Very fast forward
SHIFT + Left arrow		Very fast reverse

Down arrow		Fast forward
Up arrow			Fast reverse
SHIFT +Down arrow		Very fast forward
SHIFT +Up arrow		Very fast reverse

M			Slow
N			Slow reverse
.			Next frame
,			Previous frame

F			Fullscreen/in-window
ALT+TAB			Fullscreen/in-window
ESC			In-window

PageDown		Volume up
PageUp 			Volume down

S			Take snapshot
SHIFT + mouse dragging 	Crop selection when taking snapshot
			(to move selection, drag inside the selected area)
			(to collapse selection, click outside the selected area)
			(to change cropping size, press R)

T			Open thumbnail view

Z			Set selection start
X			Set selection end
C			Goto selection start
V			Goto selection end


Mouse wheel 		Volume up/down


What you need
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1. Windows 2000 / XP / ME
2. DirectX 8 or above
3. Real Player for playing realmedia files. http://www.realnetworks.com
4. MPEG2 decode codec for playing MPEG2 files. "GPL MPEG-1/2 Decoder" is recommended. 
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=98765&package_id=105790

Usage Agreement
===============

Area61 VideoBrowser Free Edition is provided as FREEWARE. The author grants you a 
non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license without license fees to reproduce and 
distribute the software. You may not modify, decompile, or reverse engineer the
software. This software is copyrighted.

This software is provided "as-is," without any express or implied warranty.
In no event shall the author be held liable for any damages arising from the
use of this software.

This Agreement is effective until terminated. You may terminate this Agreement 
at any time by destroying all copies of Software. This agreement will terminate 
immediately without notice from the author if you fail to comply with any provision 
of this agreement.


Contact
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We need feedback from you. Mail to our support mail address listed
in http://www.area61.net/top/ .

Updates
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V5.0.3	2006/9/15	Many features were ported from the latest Japanese version.
V4.0.2	2005/8/31	Some hardware accelaration functions of VMR9 were supported.
			The bug that the audio is lost after creating snapshots of RM files was fixed.
V4.0.1	2005/6/12	Minor bug fix.
V4.0	2005/5/10	The first English version was released.
V1.0 	2002/9/7	The first Japansese version was released.