MPEG-2 Video Tools For Linux

mpeg2videotools is a C library and set of tools for encoding, decoding, verification and analysis of MPEG-2 video. It supports 422 Profile and High Profile bitstreams. A PSNR tool is included for comparing uncompressed video to encoded MPEG-2 video.

The library will provide a C API and be implemented in C. Platforms supported will be popular Unices and Linux, MS Windows and MacOSX. autoconf and automake will be used to achieve portability for most platforms. Decoded bitstreams will be displayed using X11 server for Unix and native Windows API for MS Windows.

Included is an encoder and decoder application which are useful for creating compliant bitstreams and decoding and verifying MPEG-ES, MPEG-PS, MPEG-PES and MPEG-TS bitstreams.

A number of important improvements over the original SSG code have already been made: display on TrueColor visuals (16, 24, 32 bit displays) decoding of MPEG-TS streams decoding of broken streams which do not start with a required start code autoconf build MS Windows display a library API to enable its use in other projects (ImageMagick and the AAF SDK come to mind)

MIAMI is an MPEG-2 video codec library which aims to be a complete implementation of the ISO/IEC 13812-2:2000 standard. The priority is completeness and correctness rather than speed. Included is an encoder and a decoder for MPEG-ES,PS,PES,TS bitstreams.

What's New in This Release:

� changed function decs to ANSI style � added const qualifier to suitable function args