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Date:      Sat, 26 Jul 1997 17:12:58 -0400
From:      "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycorc@idt.net>
To:        Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Software MPEG-2  (Was: Posting prefix)
Message-ID:  <33DA685A.446B9B3D@idt.net>
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Tony Kimball wrote:
 
> Is the mpeg2 format documented online?  I understand that conventional
> wisdom requires hardware assist, but that just represents an
> algorithmic challenge....

I heard Intel (first hand) say that a 233MHz MMX Pentium will *almost*,
*but not quite* be fast enough for software MPEG-2 decode (they tried it).
In other words, while it generally worked, for high complexity/high motion
scenes, it hiccuped.  So until most of us have 300+ MHz processors, we'll
need to use hardware for MPEG-2 decoding.

Of course, if you'd like to get a head start and start writing code for
future processors, be my guest...  ;-)

Or maybe you can find a "trick" that Intel didn't think of... ???

Gary Corcoran



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