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Date:      Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:12:33 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To:        Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM
Cc:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Posting prefix 
Message-ID:  <199707250712.KAA14579@silver.sms.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199707250706.CAA03136@compound.east.sun.com>
References:  <199707242045.PAA03915@compound.east.sun.com> <199707242113.OAA15573@rah.star-gate.com> <199707250502.IAA29406@silver.sms.fi> <199707250706.CAA03136@compound.east.sun.com>

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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



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