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[ excerpt from developer's site ]
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It is a free library for decoding mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 video
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streams. The main goals in libmpeg2 development are:
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Conformance - libmpeg2 is able to decode all mpeg streams that
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conform to certain restrictions: "constrained parameters" for
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mpeg-1, and "main profile" for mpeg-2. In practice, this is what
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most people are using. For streams that follow these restrictions,
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we believe libmpeg2 is 100% conformant to the mpeg standards - and
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we have a pretty extensive test suite to check this.
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Speed - for most current systems, the display will actually take
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more time than the mpeg-2 decoding. For systems that have hardware
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color conversion and scaling (as we can use with the xv extension
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in Xfree 4), you should be able to watch DVD streams on a Celeron
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400. On a PIII/666 with null display you should get about 110 frames
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per second.
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Portability - most of the code is written in C, and when we use
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platform-specific optimizations we always have a generic C routine
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to fall back on.
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WWW: http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/
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