[MPlayer-users] Whitepaper on MPEG processing...

[Philip Prindeville]

Rich Felker wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:13:03PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
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>>Hi.
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>>I was wondering if there was a good overview of MPEG and
>>the various stages of decoding, and how they relate to computational
>>issues...  I.e. MPEG decoding as processor/memory architecture
>>problem.
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>They're all computationally fairly trivial. Basically everything is
>memory-bound.
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>Rich
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Ok, so why do some processors brag instruction supersets to accelerate
MPEG decoding?

And what about H.264 (AVC)?  Is it basically the same as MPEG-4 in
terms of general algorithm and datastructures?

-Philip