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From: gilles@dgbt.doc.ca (Gilles Gagnon)
Subject: Re: Q: Player for "corrupted" MPEG streams
Message-ID: <1995Jun22.185511.3495@dgbt.doc.ca>
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 95 18:55:11 GMT
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In article <3sc9i6$ra1@roche.csl.sri.com>, you write:
|> I have a number of MPEG-1 streams that have some of their data
|> purposely "corrupted", and I would like to be able to display
|> these sequences even though some of the data in the sequence
|> is out of range, or whatever.
|> 
|> I tried the Berkeley player, but it complains and quits without
|> displaying any of the video.  Does someone know of a player that
|> will make reasonable assumptions about the corrupted input stream
|> and display the video without quiting?
|> 


Have a look at:

    ftp.netcom.com:/pub/cf/cfogg/mpeg2/* (MPEG-2 encoder and decoder)

This contains a MPEG-2 decoder/player software which runs under X11 as well
as WINDOWS-32. There are binaries precompiled for WINDOWS and the source
code is available for unix machines running X-WINDOW. From some tests I have 
done, it seems quite robust to errors in the bitstream.

This player is fast and will play MPEG-1 bitstreams without problems.

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