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Using
Multimedia
in VR
No VR environment would be complete without the ability to play movies,
DVDs, feed live video, work with video cameras or carry out multichannel
videoconferencing and indulge in a bit of distributed or augmented reality.
As soon as one hears the terms live video, DVD movies etc., one shudders
at the thought of the complexity and size of the software requirements. Just to
write the decoding functions for a DVD player application is a daunting task.
New encoding and compressing algorithms
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are cropping up all the time, and
it is quite impossible to write every application so that it can cope with every
codec that it is likely ...