MPEG-FAQ 4.0:

MPEG Video Software Statistics Gatherer

              MPEG Video Software Statistics Gatherer
                  (Version 2.2; May 8, 1995)

 Lawrence A. Rowe, Steve Smoot, Ketan Patel, and Brian Smith
 Computer Science Division-EECS, Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley

This directory contains a public domain MPEG video statistics gatherer.
The decoder implements the standard described in the Committee 
Draft ISO/IEC CD 11172 dated December 6, 1991 which is
sometimes referred to as "Paris Format." The code has been
compiled and tested on the following platforms:

 HP PA-RISC (HP/UX 9.X) (i.e., HP 9000/7XX and 9000/3XX)
 Sun Sparc (SunOS 4.X)
 DECstation 5000 and Alpha
 Sequent
 Irix 4.0.5
 Linux

See the CHANGES file for information on all the improvements over 2.0

See the manual page for information on how to use mpeg_stat.

Send bug reports to mpeg-bugs@plateau.cs.berkeley.edu,

job offers (PhD in '96) to smoot@cs.berkeley.edu ;-)


Vendors or other organizations interested in supporting 
this research or discussing other aspects of this project should 
contact Professor Larry Rowe at rowe@CS.Berkeley.EDU.


FUTURE PLANS:
In the next version I'd like to beef up the verification code and do
something with system layer audio (when present).  In addition (major
though) MPEG-2 would be cool.  If you send me code to do any of this, it
will be much appreciated.  (In general, though, I'll only be improving it
to meet my thesis needs. -srs)

INSTALL:
  If you have gcc, type "make"
  See the file INSTALL for slightly more help.

AUDIO (we don't do audio, but Chad Fogg points out):
  CCETT has been distributing executables only of their Audio bitstream
  syntax verifier.  The site address is: 161.105.2.22
  Audio conformance bitstreams are also at ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
	We gratefully thank Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu, the Semiconductor
	Research Corporation for financial support.

	We also want to thank the following people for their help:

	Tom Lane of the Independent JPEG Group provided us with
		the basic inverse DCT code used by our player.
		(tom_lane@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu)


	Reid Judd of Sun Microsystems provided advice and assistance.

	Todd Brunhoff of NVR provided advice and assistance.

	Toshihiko Kawai of Sony provided advice and assistance.

-- 
Eugene Hung                             eyhung@garnet.berkeley.edu