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From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: [video] My Current Plan
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Amancio Hasty writes:
 > 
 > 2. Proceed forward to provide a hardware mpeg decoder/encoder solution
 >    Details a bit fuzzy however I am gathering the docs and have
 >    an Omnimedia mpeg encoder/decoder board. 

In which price range is this? The Matrox RR (M-JPEG encode, M-JPEG and
MPEG decode) sells for $149. Also Sigma Designs sells MPEG-2 decoder
for around $300...
 > 
 >    Should be interesting to serve up mpeg audio and video streams . 
 >    The mpeg audio component should be very interesting because we will
 >    be able to serve quality audio streams at around 80kbs . At any rate,
 >    thats my warm fuzzy feeling 8)
 >
RTP encapsulation is fairly straightforward. Don't fall into any
proprietary traps.
 > 
Pete