[MPlayer-users] How to find "technical differences" in MPEG?

[RC]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:50:37 +0100
karl-heinz-1950 at web.de wrote:

> How does the player then know "how fast the bits are coming or have to
> be delivered"?

Most simple hardware players just read until their buffer is full, then
stop (and play that data) until there is room in the buffer, then read
again to fill the buffer, etc.  

> I thought this values tells me how many bit per second
> I have to read out of the stream. If I read the faster or slower the
> movie will be faster or slower. Is that the wrong perception?

Videos are based on the frame-rate, not the bitrate.  (In a PAL
country) no matter how fast you read the data, there's
no way you can actually output more than 25 FPS (on a TV).