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In comp.multimedia, zilla@ccrl.nj.nec.com (John Lewis) writes:
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>The 'MPEG player' must therefore be software only, which must
>mean that it loads the file, slowly decompresses into memory, and
>then plays back from memory.

>This is a rather limited solution compared with systems (JPEG or
>quicktime) which allow recording & playback from disk.

>Correct?

Actually this goes both ways...  Yes, it may seem limited as generally
software implementations are much slower than hardware implementations.  
However there is also an advantage to software, as when standards change
or a better compression/decompression technology becomes available, it
is more easily updated than hardware...  Considering the prices of fast
cpu's are dropping everyday, it seems that the speed advantage of hardware
is crumbling.  It may very well end up that the extra flexibility of a
software solution may outweigh any speed advantage hardware may still have...
[so much for my $.02 worth...]

Awhile back someone mentioned that quicktime might be implemented for
MS Windows...  Does anyone know anything more about who & how (or even
when)???

- Galen -
galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com

These are MY opinions... not those of anyone else or the company I work for!