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

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 08:10:09PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Ok, so why do some processors brag instruction supersets to accelerate
> MPEG decoding?

Trivial, if you have a decent vector unit. Otherwise it will take some
time.

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

Not really. It's a LOT of new stuff which adds 300% slowdown and
15-30% compression gain. The basic ideas are the same but it's much
more complex.

Rich