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To: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
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Subject: Re: broadcast video 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>From The Desk Of Petri Helenius :
> Amancio Hasty writes:
>  > 
>  > H.261 or H.263 are great for real time encoding for TV quality
>  > you probably would want to use mpeg. So just read a little 
>  > on H.261, H.263, and mpeg. mpeg is almost tv quality depends
>  > on the kind of encoder options that you give to the mpeg
>  > encoder.
>  > 
>  > On todays, fast PCs we can do mpeg playback in software.
>  > 
> When you say MPEG above I take it that you were saying MPEG-1 since
> MPEG-2 can go beyond broadcast TV quality and is not that well
> decodable with software (the CPU power is not just there yet)

Yes, I meant MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 is supposed to HDTV or higher
quality than TV.

	Regards,
	Amancio