This page is an attempt to show the existing versions
of MPEG tools with source code allowing one to use them in his own context.
Only free versions of MPEG decoder/coder with source
code are presented.
| Name | Mpeg-play | The MPEG Library | OOMPEG | Mpeg-I System | Mpeg2 | XAnim | xa |
| Author | U.C. Berkeley | Greg Ward
Montreal Neurological Institute |
Loring Holden
Brown University. |
James Boucher, etc.
Boston University |
MPEG Software Simulation Group (MSSG) | Mark Podlipec | |
| Date | 17 October, 1995 | 1995 | 1994 | 1996 | 23Mar98 | ||
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| Application | Decode | Decode | Decode | Decode/Encode | Decode/Encode | Decode | |
| Unix/Linux Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Windows NT/95 Support | Yes (ported) | No | No | No | Yes | Yes, but no so good | |
| Copy/Modify granted | Yes | Yes | Non-commercial only | Yes | Yes? | Non-commercial only | |
| Multi-Threaded | No | No | Yes | ||||
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| Web site | Berkeley | Greg 's page | ooMPEG | Decoder / Encoder | http://www.mpeg.org | Pubnix or smurfland
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| Ftp site | ftp.mpeg.org | ||||||
| Additional features | Uses Mpeg-play 2.3 | Uses OOMPEG | |||||
| Advantages | Common | Portable, easy to use | Can be compiled as a C ot C++ library. | Easy to understand
Platform free |
Read also AVI,QuickTime...
Recent |
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| Disadvantages | Based on old mpeg play codebase | Read only Interlaced frames for
the mpeg, so 1 of 6 images |
MPEG is an audio/video coding format. It stands for "Moving Picture Experts Group".
More information on http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/
On this page, you will see a no exhaustive list of freeware
source code with a small descritpion.
Usefull to use in your own code, when you want to deal
with mpeg without writing your own
decoder/coder.
mpeg-patch :
BERKELEY MPEG TOOLS (Version 1.0, Release 2; August 1995)
This release includes the following tools:
mpeg_play - software-only MPEG-1 video decoder
(V2.3)
This seems to exist for several platform (Unix,
and Windows)
The ooMpeg is created from this.
mpeg_encode - software-only MPEG-1 video encoder
(V1.5R2)
mpeg_stat - a bitstream analysis tool (V2.2R2)
mpeg_blocks - an interactive tool to examine macroblock
coding (V1.0R2) (Use Tcl/Tk)
mpeg_bits - an interactive tool to examine bit
allocation to blocks (V1.0R2) (Use Tcl/Tk)
See http://www.bmrc.berkeley.edu:80/projects/mpeg/
The decoder cannot be compiled as a library (ooMPEG is
better for this purpose)
It seems I have only the mpeg_play part.
mpeg_lib-1.2.1 :
The MPEG Library (Version 1.2 - 17 October,
1995)
Built from the Berkeley decoder.
mpeg_system :
Boston University (1994)
MPEG-I MULTI-STREAM SYSTEM-LAYER ENCODER/DECODER
PAIR v1.2 Release
This software is a freeware program to :
a) Encode multiple MPEG I video streams and multiple
MPEG I audio streams into a single
system layer stream.
b) Playback system layer streams for the following
platforms:
SGI IRIX, SUN SOLARIS(both
DBRI and AMD Devices),
HPUX, Linux (with a Soundblaster
16), Sun OS 4.1.1 (AMD)
c) Support for 0-16 video streams and 0-32 audio
streams
d) Also provides the mpeg_playRT for realtime playout
of MPEG I video files.
ooMPEG :
OBJECT-ORIENTED MPEG DECODER
Give a library, which is nice, but has some
displays problems.
Looks Hairy, for compiling, running, understanding the
code.
Mpeg2 :
mpeg2encode / mpeg2decode
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MPEG-2 Encoder / Decoder, Version 1.2, July 19, 1996
Copyright (c) 1996
MPEG Software Simulation Group
E-mail: mssg@mpeg.org (author contact)
Web: http://www.mpeg.org/MSSG/
FTP: ftp://ftp.mpeg.org/pub/mpeg/mssg/
Mpeg II (and Mpeg I) decoder and encoder writtem
in C.
It is platform free (it works as well on Unix and
NT)
It is easy to understand (Makefile and C code).
CMT :
Berkeley University also created the CMT (Continuous
Media Toolkit)
But it is Tcl/Tk oriented, and Unix/X11 oriented.
See http://www.bmrc.berkeley.edu:80/projects/cmt/
Other things
FLI library : http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/%7Eark/flidlib/
MPEG encoding library : http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/%7Eark/mpegelib/