[vdr] Re: mpeg1 layer 2 (mp2) -> iec958 ?

["Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:32:10PM +0200, Sven Goethel wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 October 2003 17:49, Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
> > On 14 Oct 2003 Sven Goethel <sgoethel@jausoft.com> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 14 October 2003 13:57, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> > >> > but if your loop through solution works for decoded mp2,
> > >> > therefor plain PCM .. we may can pass software decoded mp2
> > >> > as plain PCM as well ?!?!
> > >>
> > >> Should be possible ... in that case a fully software decoder
> > >> lib for mp2 is required.  Then the question about the license
> > >> and/or patents rises :-((
> > >
> > > hmm ..
> > >
> > > anybody out there, who knows about a possible mp2 decoder patent conflict
> > > ?
> >
> > Is this realy an issue? mp2 aka mpeg 1 layer 2 can be decoded
> > with many freely available libs e.g. libmad used in the mp3
> > plugin.
> >
> > --
> > Stefan Huelswitt
> > huels@iname.com  | http://home.pages.de/~nathan
> 
> 
> btw .. how about mp3 plugin use PlayAudio (-> bitstreamout) ?
> 
> i guess i test .. since bitstreamout can play valid pcm packets

Does the mp3 really use PlayAudio with mp3 -> PCM?
I guess it does something like mp3 -> mp2 and
PlayVideo() with audio mp2 only.  In other words it
uses the hw mp2 decoder of the DVB card to get both
PCM on the S/P-DIF and analog audio.

     Werner 


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