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Re: ITP: libmpeg3 -- an mpeg audio and video decoding library



On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 08:48:44PM -0700, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> > > Libmpeg3 decodes
> > > 
> > >     MPEG-1 Layer II Audio
> > >     MPEG-1 Layer III Audio
> > >     MPEG-2 Layer III Audio
> > >     AC3 Audio
> > >     MPEG-2 Video
> > >     MPEG-1 Video
> > >     IFO files
> > >     VOB files
> > >     MPG files
> > 
> > It appears it's going to clash with an already existing package:
> > 
> > Package: libmpeg1
> 
> I don't see why it would. "3" is a part of the name of the library, not
> a version number, similar to Imlib2. You'd link against it with -lmpeg3,
> which would distinguish it from libmpeg (where 1 is just the version
> number).

And while we're at it, WTH is it called "mpeg3" when it decodes all those
other formats? :)

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