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Summary
Name	Multimedia Viewer Book
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Other names
Identifiers	PUID: fmt/1800
Family
Classification	Aggregate
Disclosure
Description	Multimedia Viewer Book is a format developed by Microsoft and used by programs such as Encarta to provide interactive, browsable multimedia. The format is very similar to the Microsoft Help .hlp format fmt/474, and a decompiler for the file format, helpdeco is available under a GNU license: https://github.com/pmachapman/helpdeco. The .hlp format this is based on was deprecated with Windows Vista.
Orientation
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Related file formats	None.
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	Microsoft Corporation
Supported by	None.
Source	Preservica / Preservica
Source date	23 Nov 2022
Source description
Last updated	23 Nov 2022
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