libmpeg2-4

Package contains libraries, required by other applications as dependencies. Do not install separately.

MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder library
libmpeg2 is a library which can decode MPEG1 and MPEG2 video streams.
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The main features in libmpeg2 are:
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* Conformance - libmpeg2 is able to decode all mpeg streams that conform to
certain restrictions. For streams that follow these restrictions, libmpeg2
is probably 100% conformant to the mpeg standards - and there's a pretty
extensive test suite to check this.
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* Speed - there has been huge efforts there, and libmpeg2 is probably the
fastest library around for what it does.
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* Portability - most of the code is written in C, and when platform-specific
optimizations are used, there always is a generic C routine to fall back
on. This should be portable to all architectures - at least we have heard
reports from people running this code on x86, ppc, sparc, arm and sh4.
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* Reuseability - libmpeg2 is not intended to include any project-specific
code, but it should still include enough features to be used by very
diverse projects.
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This package contains the libmpeg2 shared libraries.
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http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/