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Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:54:51 +0200 (EET)
From:      Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>, multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: broadcast video 
Message-ID:  <199702130854.KAA05238@silver.sms.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199702130137.RAA06298@rah.star-gate.com>
References:  <199702122001.NAA09277@seagull.rtd.com> <199702130137.RAA06298@rah.star-gate.com>

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Amancio Hasty writes:
 > 
 > H.261 or H.263 are great for real time encoding for TV quality
 > you probably would want to use mpeg. So just read a little 
 > on H.261, H.263, and mpeg. mpeg is almost tv quality depends
 > on the kind of encoder options that you give to the mpeg
 > encoder.
 > 
 > On todays, fast PCs we can do mpeg playback in software.
 > 
When you say MPEG above I take it that you were saying MPEG-1 since
MPEG-2 can go beyond broadcast TV quality and is not that well
decodable with software (the CPU power is not just there yet)

Pete


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