From: Campbell Allan <allanca AT dcs DOT gla DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: How to decode MPEG? (technical side)
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 11:32:09 +0000
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Stephen Leung wrote:
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>         Hi.  Would anyone know where I can information on how to decode
> MPEG files (any and all species)?  I mean from the programmer's view.
> Please don't tell me to go find a player... :)
> 
>         Thanks.

There's an mpeg faq at http://www.crs4.it/~luigi/MPEG/mpegfaq.html which
if it doesn't contain the info you need will point you in the write
direction. I would strongly suggest you take a look in the ftp archive
especially the docs section. Here's also an excerpt from another faq on
animation.

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    MPEG (lossy):
 Resources: `faq://graphics/mpeg-faq', also in germany
 `ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/msdos/dos/graphics/mpegfa??.zip' (covers
 specification, future, software (players, &c), hardware, incl. pointers
 to other information...);
 `post://alt.binaries.pictures.utilities/"WHERE TO GET MPEG UTILS"';
 Luigi's MPEG FAQ <URL:http://www.crs4.it/~luigi/MPEG/mpegfaq.html>;
 another WWW MPEG site <URL:http://w3.eeb.ele.tue.nl/mpeg/index.html>;
 `ftp://ftp.crs4.it' (MPEG, and other image compression techniques).
  
 Players
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 `display' v1.84 (PC) (Jih-Shin Ho). AVI, DL, FLC, GL, MPEG.
      `ftp://nctuccca.edu.tw/PC/graphics/disp*' (also on `simtel20')
 
 MPEG players for IBM, Mac, Unix, VMS, Next.
      See
      `post://alt.binary.pictures.utilities/"WHERE TO GET MPEG UTILS"',
 
 MPEG player for Atari, X11, IBM
      here <URL:http://w3.eeb.ele.tue.nl/mpeg/index.html>

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Have fun

Campbell