1 The MPEG Library is a collection of C routines to decode MPEG movies
2 and dither them in a variety of colour schemes. Most of the code in
3 the library comes directly from the Berkely MPEG player, an
4 X11-specific implementation that works fine, but suffers from minimal
5 documentation and a lack of modularity. A front end to the Berkeley
6 decoding engine was developed by Greg Ward at the Montreal
7 Neurological Institute in May/June 1994 to facilitate the development
8 of an MPEG player specifically for Silicon Graphics workstations; the
9 decoding engine together with the MNI front end constitute the MPEG