[MPlayer-users] DVD playing

[Arpi]

Hi,

> Have you ( A'rpi ) ever done any benchmark with the reverse engineered
> mpeg2 decoder ?
heh? why is it rev. engineered??????
visit http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net

its' 100% conformant implementation of the standard.

the DIVX 3.x format is reverse engineered, but this codec not only
faster than win .dll files, it's also faster than closedsource
divx4linux library.

> I have a friend at work who codes one of the best program under windows
> to rip DVDs and now play them ( It's called dvdx and is a real concurent
> to flask ) and this friend told me that there are no good open mpeg2
> decoder neither under windows nor linux because It's reversed engineered
> and so you have no specs ... Is this right ?
> He says his soft which is a pretty nice one , which he thinks somewhat
> powerfull, eats 2 times CPU more than power-dvd and that just because
> his assembly optimized routines are not the best ones ( according to him
> ). Is this really right ?
not a single word is true of this


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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