On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Britton wrote:
> >
> > I see the following snipet of code in the O'Reilly Linux Multimedia Guide:
> >
> > if (formats & AFMT_MPEG) {
> > printf(" MPEG 2");
> > (deffmt == AFMT_MPEG) ? printf(" (default)\n") : printf("\n");
> > }
> >
> > Is there something you can compile into the kernel that will let the "dsp"
> > produce mpeg 2 encoded stuff? If so I'd love to know about it.
>
> MPEG encoding/decoding does not belong in the kernel but in a
> user space program or library. The libary option is probably
> best.
That's what I'd have thought. So the above snipet of code is testing for
that support in one of the included files?
Britton Kerin
