The MPEG Library is a collection of C routines to decode MPEG movies
and dither them in a variety of colour schemes. Most of the code in
the library comes directly from the Berkely MPEG player, an
X11-specific implementation that works fine, but suffers from minimal
documentation and a lack of modularity. A front end to the Berkeley
decoding engine was developed by Greg Ward at the Montreal
Neurological Institute in May/June 1994 to facilitate the development
of an MPEG player specifically for Silicon Graphics workstations; the
decoding engine together with the MNI front end constitute the MPEG
Library.
WWW: http://starship.python.net/~gward/mpeglib/
Send mpeg-lib to its grave. This software whasn't been updated in three
years, and the author no longer has any desire to update it. This port
also installs libraries that directly conflict with KDE.
The only ports which relied on mpeg-lib (gimp1 and gimp-devel) have been
modified to statically use mpeg-lib, and not polute the system with .so's
or .a's.
Submitted by: maintainer and the KDE project
Not objected by: ports after three days
Approved by: maintainer
