On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:02:34PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > That's very strange. I thought MP2 should work with the vast > majority of DVD players (no matter what the standards say). It > never happened to me, anyway. But now i use AC3 and the point > became moot.
The DVD specs, or at least that part of which is available freely online from various web pages, indicates that for NTSC, only LPCM and AC3 are mandated. For PAL, it's LPCM and MP2 that are mandatory. Since most DVD players anymore are all based around the same small set of base decoder hardware, and the silicon makers want to make their silicon work with both NTSC and PAL (economies of scale), you find that most NTSC players will play back MP2 and AC3 without complaining. But, sadly, it's not required that they do so, it just happens to be a happy artifact of the fact that the "guts" of a typical DVD player today is almost a commodity item. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
