From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jul 24 22:02:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA14505 for multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 22:02:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silver.sms.fi (silver.sms.fi [194.111.122.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA14500 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 22:02:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pete@localhost) by silver.sms.fi (8.8.6/8.7.3) id IAA29406; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 08:02:28 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 08:02:28 +0300 (EEST) Message-Id: <199707250502.IAA29406@silver.sms.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Petri Helenius To: Amancio Hasty Cc: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Posting prefix In-Reply-To: <199707242113.OAA15573@rah.star-gate.com> References: <199707242045.PAA03915@compound.east.sun.com> <199707242113.OAA15573@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15p7 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Amancio Hasty writes: > mpeg2 now thats another cool idea with the advent of writable dvds > a project to support mpeg2 will be most cool . The missing link > right now is a cheap mpeg2 hardware codec --- anyone got a lead? > Are you speaking of encoder or decoder? The encoders are not cheap nor likely to be in the immediate future but for decoding, Matrox is coming up with a board which is supposed to be fairly inexpensive and the Creative DVD-ROM package already includes a decoder board too. Pete