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First stab at porting mplex
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+* mplex-2 - MPEG1/2 SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream multiplexer
+*
+* Orginally based on mplex
+* Copyright (C) 1994 1995 Christoph Moar
+* Reengineered version in C++
+* Copyright (C) 2000,2001, 2002 Andrew Stevens
+*
+* as@comlab.ox.ac.uk
+ (Andrew Stevens)
+* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+* (at your option) any later version.
+*
+* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+* GNU General Public License in the file COPYING for more details.
+*
+* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+* Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+
+
+
+MODIFICATIONS TO ORIGINAL
+
+July 2000 Andrew Stevens
+ Trivial modifications to support catenated audio stremas and
+ non-intractive use.
+August 2000 Andrew Stevens
+ Modifed to support multiplexing of variable bit-rate
+ video streams. Seems to work well.
+August 2000 Andrew Stevens
+ Removed use of temporary files for storing stream data.
+ Increased performance through the use of a more efficient bitstream
+ library.
+ Eliminated arithmetic overflow errors for large streams.
+ Initial support for multiplexing variable bit-rate streams.
+
+Novermber 2000 Andrew Stevens
+ Clean up code to suit modern compilers with 64-bit int support.
+ Cleaned up packet size calculations to make the code more flexible.
+ Initial MPEG-2 support
+ Support for splitting output streams (not yet completely implemented)
+ Support for multiplexing for VCD.
+
+Jan 2001-
+
+ Reengineered in C++
+ Support for SVCD.
+ Support for basic DVD
+ VBR Audio as well as video.
+ Clean stream splitting support.
+ Class structure to simplify adding new stream types
+
+ Encapsulation and modularistion