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|      RealMedia - Tester      |
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|  Version 1.02 - 17/06/2000   |
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Hi,

another program made and distributed by me, Patchou. If you
have never used any software from me, well, no matter
except that in order to use this program, you must have the
correct version of the MFC42.DLL in your Windows System
directory.

What does a tiny 32Kb executable file can do for you? well,
if you use to download RealMedia files from the Web or from
IRC fservs or friends, I'm sure that sometimes, after
having downloading hundreds of megabytes, you see that some
of your files are corrupted due to diverse reasons. This
software will help you verifying all your files (can be
really useful if you own a fserv too: that way you can be
sure that every file you serv is ok) in a simple drag&drop
operation... give it several files and folders and it will
do its work (use Windows Explorer to drag&drop files/dir).

Every directory is analysed recursively (that is,
sub-directories of sub-directories are analysed too) and a
typical 20Mb file does not take much than 5 seconds to be
analysed on a PII system. Note that only Single Rate files
can be processed, not Multi Rate ones.

Important: this software is designed to analyse the
structure of RM files. That is, if data is corrupted, the
program won't detect it and will conclude that structure is
ok but you may still have problems with RealPlayer. The
main reason of this is analyse speed; the second reason is
that, as I said above, the software verifies that you've
correctly downloaded some files... it supposes that the
original files were good (and they should be except if you
downloaded from someone who incorrectly downloaded the file
hehe... bad luck). Anyway, corrupted data is generally over
several Kb and as typical RealMedia streams are not that
big, errors are detected in 99.9% of the time.


Note:
This program does not use any DLL from Real, neither any
Real SDK code. This is a freeware, you can distribute it
to anyone you want as long as you don't forget to
distribute this TXT file with it.

Known limitations:
* This software is really basic. If you have anything that
could help me improving it (error detection schemes, files
that does not work in the Tester but should be, etc...) it
will be greatly appreciated.
* Bug reports are good too.

Useful softwares for RM files from me:
RMSE: With it, remove audio from any RealMedia G2 file...
a must if you need this kind of service.
Download: http://www.patchou.com/perso/progs/RMSE.zip

Limitation of responsibility:
As you can imagine, nothing that you can do with your files
interest me. If you have suggestions or ideas for this
program, let me know, but if you want to complain because
after using it, your HD crashed and your credit card was
used for $50.000 over the internet: forget it :).


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                            Patchou - Developer@patchou.com
