Platform requirements for IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4

Operating system: any Java-enabled platform

Java Tools:

    * For AVgen and XmtBatch (creating):
          o Minimum: JDK with Swing
          o Recommended: JDK 1.4 or above for better performance

    * For M4Play (player):
          o Minimum: JDK 1.1
          o Recommended: JDK 1.2 or above for better graphics capabilities
          o Recommended: JDK 1.3 or above for better sound quality
          o Recommended: JDK 1.4 or above for better performance

    * xmtbatch package APIs (for Toolkit SDK): Apache Xerces Java Parser (2.5.0 recommended)

RAM: 32 MB minimum, 64 MB or more recommended

Disk space: 10 MB minimum

Installation instructions for IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4

   1. Download the file IBMToolkitForMpegYYYMMDD.zip.
   2. The files needed for IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4 are found in the compressed file IBMToolkitForMpeg.zip.
   3. Unpack the IBMToolkitForMpeg.zip file to expand the files.

   4. For an introduction to the programs, please see the documentation in the help directory. There are individual directories for each for application: AVgen, XmtBatch, and M4Play.

      The batch files illustrate how to run the applications. The batch files are M4Play.bat, AVgen.bat, and XmtBatch.bat.

      For example, the sytax for running the player application is
            java -cp IBMToolkitForMpeg4.jar M4Play and for the authoring applications the syntax is
            java -cp IBMToolkitForMpeg4.jar AVgen
            java -cp IBMToolkitForMpeg4.jar XmtBatch where - cp defines the classpath and includes the toolkit's JAR file.