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You got a point specially with MMX instructions now days at least I don't
think that we require hardware assist for mpeg2 with MMX and a P166.
The real challenge is software mpeg2 encoding ...


I don't think that the mpeg2 standard is online. Anyone got a pointer?

	Tnks,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Tony Kimball :
> 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....
>