Re: MPEG Viewer for GS?

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires ) writes:

>does anybody know if there's an MPEG viewer for the GS? I noticed a
>DL Viewer posted to cba2 not too long ago and it got me wonderin'.

*hihihi* It must be this time of year again, the questions get funnier and
funnier by the week :) Sorry, no offense meant.

MPEG, unlike DL, compresses the data quite effectively. It is possible
to have an MPEG viewer purely in software on machines like a 486-66,
although you do not get the best possible quality that way.

Does that answer your question? :) No, there is no MPEG viewer, and because
of lack of speed on the GS part, you cannot write one that really
let's you view a movie ... you could get a series of still pictures,
though.

Hardware for MPEG (de)compression for the GS could be done ... but that's
a bit ridiculous, really (and you would have the problem with the
slow bus again).

Regards
Soenke
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