This is blinkentools-2.2, the next generation set of command-line
utilities for Blinkenlights. Check http://www.blinkenlights.de/
to learn more about the Blinkenlights project.

This release of blinkentools includes the following tools:
  
 b2b    - a converter between the different formats for Blinkenlights Movies.
	  It is best used thru one of its aliases: b2blm, b2bml and b2gif.

 b2mng  - converts Blinkenlights Movies to MNG files. Will support
          themes soon.

 bmultiplexer - forwards a stream of Blinkenlights UDP packets to multiple
	        recipients.

 bsend  - reads Blinkenlights movies and sends them over the net using the
          Blinkenlights protocol.

If you pass the --enable-oldtools option to configure, the following
obsoleted tools are built as well:

 blm2gif  - creates animated GIFs from Blinkenlights movies
 gif2blm  - creates Blinkenlights movies from animated GIFs
 blmplay  - plays Blinkenlights movies to the text console

More tools may be added in future releases.


blinkentools-2.1 depends on blib >= 0.6 and glib-2.0. The b2mng
utility depends on libmng-1.0. You will also need pkg-config in order
to compile blinkentools. If you installed blib into a different prefix
than pkg-config, you may need to adapt the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment
variable. See the pkg-config(1) man-page.

The file INSTALL has generic installation instructions. It all boils
down to calling './configure' in the toplevel dir, then 'make' followed
by 'make install'.

The code is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License
version 2 any later version. You will find a copy of this license in the
file COPYING.


Feel free to send questions, bug-reports, feature requests and patches
to the author Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>.


Have Blinkenfun,

   Sven Neumann
