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I found the libmpeg1 somehow very buggy, and furthermore it just does an "exit" when it fails to load a file, which leads to surpises somehow.
libmpeg3 is not very accessible, so I vote to support the following libraries:
http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/ http://avifile.sourceforge.net/
i have used libmpeg3 because it was more stable and had more features than libmpeg1. I didn't know about libmpeg2 and it's features.
however, since i knew that libmpeg3 wasn't that available i thought it would be best to configure it out, which one to take
of course, avifile has to be included...
For the beginning we could include the two versions in the GemLibs tarball.
i have always thought of the GemLibs to provide libraries that are not packaged (with debian as the reference distribution) but seeing, that libmpeg2 is cross-platform (at least linux/windoze) (and not very big) this is a very strong reason to add it to the GemLibs
mfg.ds.dar IOhannes