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Lord Nightmare
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MPEG patent issues
06/15/09 05:55 AM


> 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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Subject Posted by Posted on
* Help, Mpeg decoder hardware emulation Naibo 06/15/09 12:04 AM
. * MPEG patent issues Lord Nightmare  06/15/09 05:55 AM
. * Re: MPEG patent issues R. Belmont  06/15/09 09:17 PM
. * Re: MPEG patent issues Naibo  06/16/09 07:10 AM
. * Re: MPEG patent issues R. Belmont  06/16/09 06:38 PM
. * Re: MPEG patent issues Kale  06/23/09 07:42 PM
. * Re: MPEG patent issues R. Belmont  06/24/09 06:58 PM
. * Re: MPEG patent issues Phil Bennett  06/15/09 11:42 PM
. * Re: MPEG patent issues Lord Nightmare  06/16/09 01:56 AM

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