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MPEG-X spelling

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The most important ones above all:
</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><simpara>
  <emphasis role="bold">MPEG1</emphasis> (<emphasis role="bold">VCD</emphasis>) and
  <emphasis role="bold">MPEG2</emphasis> (<emphasis role="bold">DVD</emphasis>) video
  </simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>
  native decoders for <emphasis role="bold">DivX ;-), OpenDivX (DivX4),
  DivX 5 (Pro), 3ivX, M$ MPEG4</emphasis> v1, v2 and other MPEG4 variants
  </simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>
  native decoder for <emphasis role="bold">Windows Media Video 7/8</emphasis>
  (<emphasis role="bold">WMV1/WMV2</emphasis>), and Win32 DLL decoder
  for <emphasis role="bold">Windows Media Video 9</emphasis>

This section contains information about the DivX4 and DivX5 codecs of
<ulink url="http://www.projectmayo.com">Project Mayo</ulink>.
Their first available alpha version was OpenDivX 4.0 alpha 47 and 48.
Support for this was included in <application>MPlayer</application> in the
past, and built by default. We also used its postprocessing code to
optionally enhance visual quality of MPEG1/2 movies. Now we use our own,
for all file types.
</para>

<para>
The new generation of this codec is called DivX4 and can even decode

impressing encoding facility and higher speed than the Win32 codecs or the
DivX.com DivX4/5 libraries!
</para>

<para>
It contains a lot of nice codecs, especially important are the MPEG4 variants:
DivX3, DivX4, DivX5, Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/WMV2). Also a very interesting one
is the WMA decoder.
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<para>

</para>
</sect3>


<sect3 id="mpeg12">
<title>MPEG 1/2 video</title>
<para>
MPEG1 and MPEG2 are decoded by the multiplatform native <systemitem
class="library">libmpeg2</systemitem> library, whose source code is
included in <application>MPlayer</application>.  We handle buggy MPEG 1/2
video files by catching <systemitem>Signal 11</systemitem>
(<systemitem>segmentation fault</systemitem>), and quickly
reinitializing the codec, continuing exactly from where the failure
occurred.  This recovery technique has no measurable speed penalty.
</para>

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The most important ones above all:
</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><simpara>
  <emphasis role="bold">MPEG-1</emphasis> (<emphasis role="bold">VCD</emphasis>) and
  <emphasis role="bold">MPEG-2</emphasis> (<emphasis role="bold">DVD</emphasis>) video
  </simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>
  native decoders for <emphasis role="bold">DivX ;-), OpenDivX (DivX4),
  DivX 5 (Pro), 3ivX, M$ MPEG-4</emphasis> v1, v2 and other MPEG-4 variants
  </simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>
  native decoder for <emphasis role="bold">Windows Media Video 7/8</emphasis>
  (<emphasis role="bold">WMV1/WMV2</emphasis>), and Win32 DLL decoder
  for <emphasis role="bold">Windows Media Video 9</emphasis>

This section contains information about the DivX4 and DivX5 codecs of
<ulink url="http://www.projectmayo.com">Project Mayo</ulink>.
Their first available alpha version was OpenDivX 4.0 alpha 47 and 48.
Support for this was included in <application>MPlayer</application> in the
past, and built by default. We also used its postprocessing code to
optionally enhance visual quality of MPEG-1/2 movies. Now we use our own,
for all file types.
</para>

<para>
The new generation of this codec is called DivX4 and can even decode

impressing encoding facility and higher speed than the Win32 codecs or the
DivX.com DivX4/5 libraries!
</para>

<para>
It contains a lot of nice codecs, especially important are the MPEG-4 variants:
DivX3, DivX4, DivX5, Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/WMV2). Also a very interesting one
is the WMA decoder.
</para>

<para>

</para>
</sect3>


<sect3 id="mpeg12">
<title>MPEG-1/2 video</title>
<para>
MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 are decoded by the multiplatform native <systemitem
class="library">libmpeg2</systemitem> library, whose source code is
included in <application>MPlayer</application>.  We handle buggy MPEG-1/2
video files by catching <systemitem>Signal 11</systemitem>
(<systemitem>segmentation fault</systemitem>), and quickly
reinitializing the codec, continuing exactly from where the failure
occurred.  This recovery technique has no measurable speed penalty.
</para>