xs4all MMWave 2K - Release B (1999.09.25)
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 Copyright © 1998-99, xs4all & SoundBytes Denmark.
 All rights reserved.

 Freeware Version for Win32/x86



 About MMWave 2K - Release X
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 This release of MMWave 2K is the complete application. From
 now on MMWave 2K will be released in different kind of versions
 easily marked "Release A, B, C etc...". To be sure that you
 have the newest release, make sure that the "Letter" is the
 the newest.

 This application is released "as is", with no warranties of
 any kind. The end user is using this application on his/hers
 own risk. The author(s) of this application cannot be held
 resposible for any damages caused by this application.

 We have spent many hours of producing this application, here it
 is, a fully working version after many hours work.


 What the h*ll stands "MMWave" for?
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 You're not the first to ask this question. To be honest with you,
 we do not either know what it stands for. Of course it could be:
 MultiMedia Wave Producer or just MuchMore Wave. So it's entirely
 upto you what the name should stand for, if you figure out one good
 then don't hesitate to contact us immidetly on: admin@xs4all.dk

 Actually MMWave stands for: MuchMoreWave, easy as is ;)

 MM2.DLL and it's contents
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 From beta 1 of MMWave 2K, NGin introduced a brand new Audio MPEG
 Analyzer. He call it "MM2 Technology" and is of course based on
 his very own MMWave 2 decoder engine. This new engine will be
 introduced among with Mjoelner, our very own Audio MPEG Encoder SDK.
 The MM2 library can both analyze and play Audio MPEG streams. The
 analyze are based on several months work, the decoder itself will
 soon be able to decode Audio MPEG files into either WAV or RAW files.
 MM2 can be licensed from NGin, contact him on: rasmus@xs4all.dk if
 you're interested.

 The new "Mapping Mode"
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 Together with the new MM2 Technology comes the new option in
 MMWave 2K to use a so called mapping mode. This option first analyzes
 the input Audio MPEG stream and after a successfull decode (via
 Xaudio) it finally S*T*E*P*S the wave/raw file in order to
 fully optimize the decode process to a supported encoder.
 If no supported encoder are found MM2 uses a normal ISO based encoder
 procedure and suggest the Mapping Mode to use a falloff on ~ 18 KHz.
 By using this Mapping Mode, the resault is slighty better.

 Remove bleeps from MP3 files
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 Yes, some MP3 files contains those nasty bleeps. By using the build
 in bleep remover, you will notice that most of the bleeps are removed
 in the resaulting output file. Note that this feature only works with
 MP3 files in the format: Stereo/128-320 Kbps/44 KHz All other MP3
 files will just be ignored.

 MMX and 3DNow! code, why?
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 For some reasons (several) processors with these options makes the
 decoding process increase as much as 10 to 25 % depending on what
 MPEG Audio stream format we're speaking about. The new 3DNow! code
 has been licensed from Zerro Software (www.zerro-software.nu) as
 well as the normalize code.

 Normalize, and so what?
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 In the earlier releases of MMWave, this function were automatic.
 But some users reported problems, and it was suggested to be done
 manually. By using the normalizing wizard, you can normalize
 (maximize) the soundlevel in your wave files. This is a nice feature,
 if you have several wave files that have the different soundlevel
 you should use this function.

 CD-R joblists, why that?
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 MMWave 2K can build joblists from different decode jobs. CD-R products
 like Ahead's Nero Burning Rom (4.0.0.3) are able to make use of the
 MMWave 2K CD-R joblist format. Just choose your favourite CD-R
 product and see if it works for you.

 The MM2 Audio MPEG Player
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 In beta 1 we added a possibility to play the MPEG Audio streams before
 decoding them. Just mark a MPEG Audio stream in the joblist and
 rightclick your mouse and select "Play file". The player is very
 basic, but has a very fast seeking function with help from the MM2
 library (by NGin).

 The WAV2RAW converter
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 This nice utility can easily convert your Wave files into RAW files.
 Unfortunately you can't do it reverse (at least not yet).

 Intro decoding
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 This is not a new feature. Actually it's based on the old "Range 
 decoding" feature from the old MP32WAV Pro. 1.0 product (from the
 earlier rJPa Industries). Just select how many seconds you want
 to decode. It's simple as 1..2..3

 All settings are saved "on the fly"
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 Yes, MMWave 2K's settings are saved on the fly. This means that
 you don't have to restart MMWave 2K at any time in order to make
 new selections take effect.

 Priority is important
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 Hmm, why? Well basically because the priority can speed up the
 entire decoding progress magnificantly. The priority classes you
 can choose is: 20,40,60,80 and 100 %. If you select 100 %, make
 sure that no other applications are running and that you have
 absolutely minimum 32Mb of installed RAM.

 MMWave 2K were created on
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 An AMD K6-2 266MHz, 128 Mb PC-100 SDRAM (dec. from 512 Mb)
 1*3.2 Gb Quantum Fireball IDE HDD
 1*8.4 Gb Western Digital IDE HDD
 1*Plextor R412-C SCSI-2 CD-R
 1*4x Samsung CD-ROM
 AWE64 Sound Device
 
 Running...
 MS-Windows 95 OSR2.1 with IE4.01 installed
 RedHat Linux 6.0 with Gnome/Enlightenment installed

 The website "xs4all.dk" running on...
 FreeBSD/x86 with Apache 1.3.6 PHP, SSI Enabled Web Services


 We hope that you will enjoy this release of MMWave 2K as much
 as we enjoyed creating it.


 Sincerely

 xs4all network, denmark.