Re: mpeg2 support in kernel?

[Britton <fsblk@aurora.alaska.edu>]

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