Version History
===============

	FMV-Extractor V 1.2 Release
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	- Temporarily removed MP3-Support, as it is not reliable enough yet.
	- Fixed Form not updating
	- Fixed GPF on exit when analysis still running

	FMV-Extractor V 1.2 Beta 4
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	- Added preliminary MP3 support
	- Bitmaps with any color depths supported
	- added Clip info box
	- internal playback for AVI,WAV,MIDI,MPEG,MP3 (depends on System), old Quicktime
	- external playback support
	- improved QuickTime search (less 'false alarms')

	FMV-Extractor V 1.2 Beta 3
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	- Added support for Quicktime, RealVideo, Midi
	- Added Timer / ETA
	- ASPI-Drivers no longer required for CD-Mode if running NT/2000/XP
	- Fixed a bug introduced in Beta 2 that caused major slowdown

	FMV-Extractor V 1.2 Beta 2
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	- Added Drag&Drop support, which was about time.
	  This should improve usability quite a bit.
	- Smacker support is back in.

	FMV-Extractor V 1.2 Beta 1
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	- The V1.1 batch was too unstable, so I rewrote everything.
	  From scratch. Everything.
  	  As a result, Smacker and Videolive are still missing,
	  but they'll be back soon.
	  Furthermore, V1.2 is single-threaded.
	- At last wrote a help file
	- Added a toolbar
	- Re-designed the UI
	- Introduced a more 'thorough' analysis engine.
	  As a result, analysis takes quite a bit longer, but the chances
	  of finding clips have improved even more.
	- Introduced search for BMP and JPG 

	FMV-Extractor V 1.1 Alpha 4
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	- hopefully fixed a nasty thread-related bug that caused random GPFs
	- slightly improved CD-Mode speed

	FMV-Extractor V 1.1 Alpha 3
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	- consolidated large portion of the code
	- some minor GUI tweaks

	FMV-Extractor V 1.1 Alpha 2
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	- ported CD-Mode code to Win9x
	- added Pause / Resume button 

	FMV-Extractor V 1.1 Alpha 1
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	- added basic CD-Mode (NT/Win2K only)
	- made another absolutely unjustified jump in version numbers :)

	FMV-Extractor V 1.01 Beta 3
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	- added support for WAV audio by request (thanks to Palamedes)

	FMV-Extractor V 1.01 Beta 2
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	- added support for MPEG-1 System streams

	FMV-Extractor V 1.01 Beta 1
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	- added support for VideoLive videos by request (thanks to Euro Nguyen)

	FMV-Extractor V 1.01 Beta 1
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	- moved the analysis routine to a seperate thread
	  (so the progress bar gets updated properly)

	FMV-Extractor V 1.0
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	- skipped (I don't like .0 - releases :)

	FMV-Extractor V 0.9a
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	- massively improved the search for Interplay MVE files by changing the 
	  search pattern

	FMV-Extractor V 0.9
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	- added a status indicator (which was about time)
	- cleaned up the code
	- improved the error handling a bit 

	FMV-Extractor V 0.8 (unreleased)
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	- improved the search for Smacker files by changing the search pattern

	FMV-Extractor V 0.7 (unreleased)
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	- re-designed the GUI

	FMV-Extractor V 0.6 (unreleased)
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	- added support for Smacker (R) videos, thus covering over 2000 (!) games

	FMV-Extractor V 0.5 (unreleased)
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	- introduced a little error handling
	- improved the search for AVI files by changing the search pattern

	FMV-Extractor V 0.4 (unreleased)
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	- added support for AVI video files, although I haven't found a game that 
	  uses those ...

	FMV-Extractor V 0.3 (unreleased)
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	- added support for Interplay (R) video files
	- renamed the project to FMV-Extractor, as BIK-Extractor was no longer 
	  appropirate :)
	- introduced version numbers instead of build numbers

	BIK-Extractor Build 003003 (unreleased)
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	- hopefully fixed the bug that occasionally corrupted the last frame of 
	  the video, causing the player to crash.

	BIK-Extractor Build 002902
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	- initial release


Known Issues / Limitations
==========================

	- VideoLive support has been  removed.
	
	- CD-Mode uncompatible with copy-protected CDs

Plans for the next release(s)
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	- Implement error tolerance
	- Implement multi-language support
	- Add custom search option

If there's any feature you'd like to see in FMV-Extractor, just let me know,
and I'll see what I can do.

zoth-ommog@gmx.net