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In article <24362@galaxy.ucr.edu> rhyde@picard.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
>It's easy to get 10 fps playback from MPEG *if you have the right source
>material*.  It's also hard to get beyond 3-4 fps if you have bad source
>material.  I've just about completed 100 hours of measurements on Apple's
>compact video format and I can tell you that the source material makes
>a *big* difference in compression ratios, data transfer rates, data
>decompression, etc.  A stable background with only a little movement
>works much better with these codecs than, say, panning or zooming the
>camera.  Of course, MPEG won't be of too much use to most of us until
>the hardware codecs come along.

I strongly agree with you. I wish there were some standard data set
available which enable us to make fair comparisons among touted products
in the market.  I would like to hear from MPEG people on this issue.

- Masaru Sugai,	NEC Corporation, Japan
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Masaru Sugai   NEC Corporation Tokyo Japan
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