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MPEG patent issues
06/15/09 05:55 AM
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> Hi, I'm working on a Jaleco's music game driver: VJ, which plays full motion video > (*.mpv file) from its hard disk. > > I'm wondering whether I should write MPEG decoding routine for this driver. Does MAME > have a general MPEG playback code? > How do some SEGA ST_V games play FMV? > > :-)
MPEG decoding in MAME is currently sort of taboo due to mpeg patents, from what I hear. Once the MPEG patents expire (in 2011 iirc) it will certainly be added.
LN
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