From: <mr.escape_at_gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:48:26 +0200

At 14:11 10.10.2003, you wrote:
>why don't YOU strip out the audio? anyway, the audio in avi files is often
>mp3, not mpeg-1 or 2 files.

That's right (well almost always mpeg1 layer 3, occasionally mpeg2 layer 3
or some old or unusual codec), but <mailto:Choi.Minuk_at_verizon.net>Minuk
<mailto:Choi.Minuk_at_verizon.net>Choi was talking about mpeg files, thinking
about demuxing the audio (mpeg 1 or rarely mpeg2 layer 2) part, similar to
some players able to play the wma part in asf movies.

mr.escape
>
>i don't think the archos' cpu is fast enough to be able to take out the
>audio in real time.

Just demuxing is not that much demanding. Only stress for the hd and the
battery.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:Choi.Minuk_at_verizon.net>Minuk Choi
>To: <mailto:rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se
>Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 12:40 PM
>Subject: MPEG extraction?
>
>Just out of curiosity... the MP3 decoder hardware... would it be possible
>to say, write a plugin that would go through an MPEG movie file and strip
>out the video part and send the audio part to the decoder?
>
>Kinda like, for music videos.... 'cause some of them have audio encoded by
>MPEG-3
>
>
>BTW-did anyone else get like a bunch of mail which are copies from several
>weeks ago?
>-Mark
Received on 2003-10-10