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Quoth Petri Helenius on Fri, 25 July:
: Are you speaking of encoder or decoder? The encoders are not cheap nor
: likely to be in the immediate future

Is the mpeg2 format documented online?  I understand that conventional
wisdom requires hardware assist, but that just represents an
algorithmic challenge....