[MPlayer-users] DVD playing

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:16:06PM +0100, Samuel Maftoul wrote:
> I have a friend at work who codes one of the best program under windows
> to rip DVDs and now play them ( It's called dvdx and is a real concurent
> to flask ) and this friend told me that there are no good open mpeg2
> decoder neither under windows nor linux because It's reversed engineered
> and so you have no specs ... Is this right ?
> He says his soft which is a pretty nice one , which he thinks somewhat
> powerfull, eats 2 times CPU more than power-dvd and that just because
> his assembly optimized routines are not the best ones ( according to him
> ). Is this really right ?

Who knows ... Ask your friend to give us his sources and we'll check it ;-)

- Gábor