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+1) Introduction
+---------------
+
+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, and simple example
+            programs
+- dshow: windows direct show decoder filter which links against
+         xvidcore to allow MPEG-4 playback on Windows based OS.
+- vfw: video for windows GUI
+
+
+2) Documentation
+----------------
+
+- xvidcore/doc/README: some general information.
+- xvidcore/doc/INSTALL: building and installing instructions.
+
+
+3) Licensing:
+------------
+
+- XviD is licensed as a whole under the terms of the XviD license
+  described in the file LICENSE This is true for all files belonging
+  to XviD except for those which specifically carry a different
+  license header.
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