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koh@cat.syr.edu writes...
>I saw the posting at some newsgroup that said
>Xing's MPEG SW doesn't do real MPEG compression
>- It doesn't do inter-frame compression.
>
>I remembered some guy at UC Berkeley posted it.
>Is that true?
>If it is true, then is there any SW package for MPEG encoding?
>Something are being developed now?

Unfortunately, it is true. XING data in NOT true MPEG and in
fact does a lot of dubious things with its Inverse DCT.

XING data is simply a sequence of I-Frames (i.e. no interframe
compression is done, no motion vectors, nothing).
This amounts to little more than a sequence of JPEG type images.

We have developed a software MPEG decoder. It handles MPEG data
that conforms to the draft standard as of Dec 1991.
It has been alpha released last week and will be
released to the general public sometime next week
if I can get it polished in time. 

If you would like to recieve more information on how to get
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Thanks.

Ketan Patel
kpatel@cs.berkeley.edu