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To: Black-Scholes who wrote (41696)	6/2/1999 12:58:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

"I'm starting to wonder seriously if because the strong majority of encoding is done by CUBE/Divicom, there exists a quality "advantage" of using CUBE decoders? Is that a possibility?" Yes and no. There once was a rumor, that a tweak in Cubes VCD encoder firmware resulted in a high number of VCD player returns in China. Coincidently, none of the returned players had Cube chips in them. Disclaimer: I have no proof that any of this occured. However, IMHO, if Cube produces an MPEG2 encoder that produces MPEG2 streams incompatible with other high volume MPEG 2 decoders they run the risk of having their encoders thrown out of the building. That's not to say they can't add a feature here and there that their decoders can take advantage of, as long as the resulting stream plays nice on other decoders. Once interesting "tweak" someone mentioned once is that they could have the encoder not generate any null packets. Not sure if it would break any decoders or not, but it would probably put the screws to Clint's company. He, He. Go ahead punk, make my day...