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Introduction|
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AVI2Clipboard is a small freeware utility that saves information from AVI videos to the clipboard.
This is handy if you want to post AVI information on websites or forums.
It's also possible to view the AVI information or to batch save the information of all AVI videos
in a folder to text files.

There are two output modes: "Normal" and "Template".
With "Normal", the AVI information will be saved as a list.
With "Template", the user can make a custom template and use specific variables, which will be
replaced with the AVI information.

AVI2Clipboard adds an entry to your Explorer context menu, which will only show when you
right-click on a file with an .avi extension.




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Features|
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- Copy AVI information to the clipboard as a list.
- Copy AVI information to the clipboard by using a custom made template.
- View the AVI information.
- Batch save AVI information to separate text files or a single text file (175 videos per minute).
- Batch save AVI information to (a single) text file(s) by using a custom made template (175 videos per minute).
- Select which information to save (not available when viewing the AVI information).




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License and distribution|
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1. The product, AVI2Clipboard (in whole or in part, including all files, data, and documentation,
   from here on referred to as "Software" is Copyright © 2006 by Wantos. All rights reserved.
   The sole owner of this product is Wantos.


2. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY. The Software is provided on an "AS IS" basis, without warranty of any kind.
   The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the Software is borne by you.


3. You may not copy, modify, translate, or transfer the product or any copy except as expressly defined
   in this agreement. You may not remove or modify any copyright notice, nor any "about" dialog or the
   method by which it may be invoked.




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Known Bugs|
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For some strange reason AVI2Clipboard does not seem to work for everybody. It works fine for 98% of the people, but for the
other 2% nothing happens when they select a menu option. At this moment I haven't been able to find out if this is a problem
with AVI2Clipboard or that it's a problem with the computer hardware/software of those 2%.

If it doesn't work for you, then I apologize.



AVI2Clipboard cannot read segmented AVI videos created by AVI-Mux. Explorer will freeze. I can check if the video is a segmented
AVI video, but it slows AVI2Clipboard down quite a bit. So far I've only come across one AVI video created by AVI-Mux. The chance
of having a segmented AVI video and Explorer freezing due to this is so small, that it's not worth the loss of speed on all AVI
videos (unless you use AVI-Mux for your videos).



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History|
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14-05-2006 (Version 2.15)

- Modified and deleted code. Some code was added multiple times for different purposes, which was eventually unnecessary and made
  the dll bigger than it should have been (didn't affect performance though).
- Added file identification. If the file is not an AVI video, but actually another video type renamed to AVI, then AVI2Clipboard
  will tell you which video type it really is (.asf, .mkv, .mov, .mpg, .ogm, .rm, .swf, .vob, .wmv).
- Codec database is now internal and not a text file anymore that gets extracted every time you use AVI2Clipboard. The reason for
  this is that some virus scanners (like McAfee) report the extraction of the text file as a secret/malicious script.
- Fixed problem where AVI2Clipboard would freeze during "Batch Saving" if there was an error while parsing an AVI header.
- Fixed little stupid mistake where the AVI2Clipboard menu option would not show up in the Explorer context menu if the AVI
  extension (file name) contained capitals.
- AVI2Clipboard can now show AVI tags as well when viewing the information (if available), like Copyright, Genre and Comments.
- Added Packed Bitstream detection.
- Added TwoCC (hex) for audio codecs.
- Added Constant Bitrate (CBR) and Variable Bitrate (VBR) detection.
- Updated codec database (417 video and 166 audio codecs).



24-03-2006 (Version 2.00)

- Completely re-written.
- Changed menu. All options are now shown in a sub-menu, to prevent having a huge context menu when right-clicking on an AVI video.
- Added option to view AVI information.
- Added options to batch save the AVI information to a single text file or to separate text files.
- Solved registry problem where AVI2Clipboard would not work properly if certain video/audio players were installed.



11-01-2006 (Version 1.24)

- Added Quality Factor.



04-01-2006 (Version 1.17)

- Removed ASCii.
- Added file sizes in Bytes and KB.
- Added Setup menu.
- Added Template support.



30-12-2005 (Version 1.00)

- First Release.




