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From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
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Tony Kimball writes:
 > 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....
 > 
I didn't attend the demonstration myself but there are multiple
sources claiming that MPEG-2 decode can be done at the ballpark
power of 233-266 Pentium_II (using MMX extensions)

Pete