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2* Maaate                                                        *
3* The audio analysis toolkit from CSIRO Australia               *
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6* Read the file COPYING for license information.                *
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8
9The code for mpeg parsing is based on the MPEG-2 Audio Decoder - Lower
10Sampling Frequency Extension of the reference implementation in C of
11the ISO MPEG working group, to be found at
12ftp://ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de/pub/MPEG/audio/mpeg2/software/technical_report/ dist10.tar.gz
13
14The MPEG library of Maaate contains some of the functions of that
15distribution, but has been redesigned from scratch with audio analysis
16in mind.  A lot of code has been written to make the API as simple as
17possible.  The ISO/MPEG copyright notice is included in this file.
18
19All the other code (tier1, tier2, plugins, plugins_brief, demos
20directories) are original from CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and
21Industrial Research Organisation) of Australia.  It originated in the
22Digital Media Information Systems group which has worked on analysing
23MPEG audio since 1997. Now, the Analytic Audio Systems group is
24continuing its development.
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27ISO/MPEG copyright notice:
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29
30ISO MPEG Audio Subgroup Software Simulation Group (1996)
31ISO 13818-3 MPEG-2 Audio Decoder - Lower Sampling Frequency Extension
32          INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION
33           ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION
34                               ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG 11
35            CODING OF MOVING PICTURES AND ASSOCIATED AUDIO
36
37                                                                MPEG94/
38                                                                Nov. 1994
39
40Source: Davis Pan (Motorola Inc.),
41            Chairman of the MPEG/audio ad hoc committee on software
42            simulation
43Title: Working Draft of MPEG/Audio Technical Report
44
45Disclaimer of Warranty
46        These software programs are available to the user without any
47license fee or royalty on an "as is" basis.  ISO disclaims any and all
48warranties,  whether express, implied, or statuary, including any
49implied warranties or merchantability or of fitness for a particular
50purpose.  In no event shall ISO be liable for any incidental, punitive,
51or consequential damages of any kind whatsoever arising from the
52use of these programs.
53
54        This disclaimer of warranty extends to the user of these
55programs and user's customers, employees, agents, transferees,
56successors, and assigns,
57
58        ISO does not represent or warrant that the programs furnished
59hereunder are free of infringement or any third-party patents,
60copyrights or trade secrets.
61
62        The purpose of this software is to provide a tool to help in the
63learning and understanding of the MPEG/audio compression and
64decompression algorithm.  It is not an efficient implementation.
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68Maaate has originally been written by Silvia Pfeiffer with lots of
69contributions from Conrad Parker. Many people further contributed to
70it by reporting problems, suggesting various improvements or
71submitting actual code. Here is a list of these people. Help me keep
72it complete and exempt of errors.
73
74Silvia Pfeiffer     CSIRO   Silvia.Pfeiffer@cmis.csiro.au
75Conrad Parker       CSIRO   Conrad.Parker@cmis.csiro.au
76Stephen Barrass,    CSIRO
77Jordi Robert-Ribes, ex-CSIRO
78Brian Kim,          ex-CSIRO
79Bill Simpson-Young, ex-CSIRO
80Graham Reynolds,    CSIRO
81Uma Srinivassan,    CSIRO
82Craig Lindley,      ex-CSIRO
83Iain Mott,          CSIRO Artist in Residence 1999/2000
84Duc Son Pham,       Student (vacation scholarship dec 2000-feb2001)
85Thomas Vincent,     Student (traineeship oct 2001-feb 2002)
86Stefan Kudras	    Visitor (visit mai 2002 - oct 2002)
87
88Thanks also to Noam Cohen and Ofer Kruzel of VSoft for their input to
89the Windows port.