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From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>, multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: broadcast video 
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Amancio Hasty writes:
 > 
 > H.261 or H.263 are great for real time encoding for TV quality
 > you probably would want to use mpeg. So just read a little 
 > on H.261, H.263, and mpeg. mpeg is almost tv quality depends
 > on the kind of encoder options that you give to the mpeg
 > encoder.
 > 
 > On todays, fast PCs we can do mpeg playback in software.
 > 
When you say MPEG above I take it that you were saying MPEG-1 since
MPEG-2 can go beyond broadcast TV quality and is not that well
decodable with software (the CPU power is not just there yet)

Pete