From: Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>
To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MPEG Support
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 14:31:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-sound-93377726217096@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-sound-93371079221997@msgid-missing>
Kurt Wall wrote:
> Does the 2.2.x sound driver yet support MPEG? Or is this being coded up in
> ALSA (I've not looked at this) or video-for-linux?
Why would it want to? It doesn't make sense to put a software MPEG
decoding engine in the kernel. Only if the hardware has an MPEG
decoder (is there any PC hardware that does this?) it's interface
should be exposed to user space by the sound driver.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-08-04 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-03 19:56 MPEG Support Kurt Wall
1999-08-04 9:25 ` Benno Senoner
1999-08-04 12:50 ` Jonathan C. Masters
1999-08-04 14:31 ` Thomas Sailer [this message]
1999-08-05 10:30 ` Kurt Wall
1999-08-05 13:06 ` Thomas Sailer
1999-08-05 13:18 ` Kurt Wall
1999-08-05 17:03 ` sbenno
1999-08-05 17:04 ` Thomas Sailer
1999-08-05 19:12 ` Hannu Savolainen
1999-08-06 1:57 ` Dan Hollis
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