Libmpeg2 is a library which can decode mpeg1 and mpeg2 video streams.

the main features in libmpeg2 are:

* conformance - libmpeg2 is able to decode all mpeg streams that conform to
certain restrictions. for streams that follow these restrictions, libmpeg2
is probably 100% conformant to the mpeg standards - and there's a pretty
extensive test suite to check this.
* speed - there has been huge efforts there, and libmpeg2 is probably the
fastest library around for what it does.
* portability - most of the code is written in c, and when platform-specific
optimizations are used, there always is a generic c routine to fall back
on. this should be portable to all architectures - at least it is known
people run this code on x86, ppc, sparc, arm and sh4.
* reuseability - libmpeg2 is not intended to include any project-specific
code, but it should still include enough features to be used by very
diverse projects.
this package contains the libmpeg2 shared libraries.