MPEG-FAQ: multimedia compression [9/9]
Frank Gadegast
Archive-name: mpeg-faq/part9
Last-modified: 1996/06/02
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o all MPEG-streams that are not already available in the Internet, like
most of the MPEG-1-systemstreams, other streams and the Intro,
consisting of MPEGCD.M1V, MPEGCD.MPG, MPEGCD.MP2 and MPEGCD.WAV
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Die Internet MPEG CD-Rom ist eine einzigartige Kollektion von MPEG- Audio-
und Video-Daten. Sie enthält ca. 600 MB digitale MPEG-Filme, MPEG-Songs
(inclusive Internet Underground Music Archiv) und alle Utilities und Infos,
die gebraucht werden, um das Material rein per Software abzuspielen, zu
schneiden, zu variieren und zu erzeugen.
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und MACs gelesen werden. Sie enthält MPEG-Tools und Utilities für diese
Platformen. Alle Utilities sind Shareware oder Public Domain.
Die Internet MPEG CD-Rom wurde als interaktives HTML-Hypertext-Dokument
organisiert, so daß Sie sich mit einem WWW-Viewer durch das Archiv klicken
können, ohne dabei den Überblick zu verlieren.
So können Sie sich interaktiv per Mausklick durch über 150 MPEG-Songs von
40 Bands und durch über 200 MPEG-Filme bewegen !
Unter Windows wird der CELLO-WWW-Viewer installiert, mit dem Sie OFFLINE
durch das Internet "surfen" können.
(alle WWW-Seiten auch unter Unix und auf MACs abrufbar !)
Lernen Sie, wie das Internet funktioniert, OFFLINE von der CD ! Sie brauchen
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Alles ist nur einen Klick entfernt !
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Ihnen Stunde für Stunde Musik und Filme bringt !
Ein Klick und Sie hören via Realtime-Software-MPEG-Audio-Player die Bands in
CD-Qualität ! Noch ein Klick und Sie sehen die MPEG-Filme rein per
Software-Playback ! Keine MPEG-Hardware erforderlich ! Seien Sie schneller als
das Internet, holen Sie sich diese CD-Rom:
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~Subject: The Internet MPEG Audio Archive
PHADE SOFTWARE and Hartmann Multimedia Service
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January 1th 1996
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and the whole contens of the archive. You can browse also through Megabytes
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Internet MPEG Audio Archive, Version 1.0
ISO 9660 conform CD-Rom disc, 435 MB , 1561 Files
easy point and click HTML-interface via Cello WEB-Browser
"The Internet MPEG CD-Rom" contains at least the following sections:
170 MB AUDIO general Audio Files
17 MB BIN Installation programs for Windows
1 MB FAQ Frequently Asked Question files
138 MB IUMA Internet Underground Music Archive
108 MB NFM Net For Music archive
11 MB UTIL Tools and source code for Amiga, DOS, Unix & Windows
137 MB WOLVERIN Wolverine Records archive
10 MB WWW HTML-dokuments to explains contents
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like most of the songs, other streams and the Intro.
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those files for a different purpose is strictly prohibited and protected
by German Law.
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~Subject: How can I order information from C-CUBE ?
Announcing C-Cube product information request via E-Mail
All requests for general C-Cube product literature should be forwarded to:
Requests for specific JPEG or MPEG product information should be forwarded to:
jp...@c-cube.com
mp...@c-cube.com
Please include your complete name, address, phone and fax numbers in your
request. Thank you. C-Cube Microsystems
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~Subject: SECTION 9. - ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Here you find hints about how to find other documents, or questions
and their answers that are not having their own section so far !
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~Subject: What are the MPEG standard documents ?
From: bi...@cray.com (Bill Davidson)
Date: 21 Apr 94 02:16:32 MET
I just connected to the Document Center WAIS server at wais.service.com
to find out what MPEG documents cost. This is what I found:
Title Pages Price(US$)
ISO/IEC-11172-1 - PART 1: SYSTEMS, INFORMATION 60 158.75
TECHNOLOGY - CODING OF MOVING PICTURES &
ASSOCIATED AUDIO FOR
ISO/IEC-11172-2 - PART 2: VIDEO, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 122 204.00
- CODING MOVING PICTURES & ASSOCIATED AUDIO FOR
DIGI
ISO/IEC-11172-3 - PART 3: AUDIO, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 157 214.25
- CODING OF MOVING PICTURES & ASSOCIATED AUDIO
FOR D
ISO/IEC-CD-11172 - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - CODING OF 0 207.00
OF MOVING PICTURES & ASSOCIATED AUDIO - FOR
DIGITAL STORAGE
Is this a mistake or are standards documents really rediculously
priced? Since these would be for my own personal use, I have to pay
for them out of my own personal pocket. Just one of these eats my book
budget for quite a while.
I realize that they have to make money but this has got to be about a
1000% markup over printing costs; even assuming low volumes.
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~Subject: So, the Xing decoder is cheating, right ?
[ About what Xing is messing up again ... ]
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 12:20:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Jared V Boone <jbo...@patriot.wtfd.orst.edu>
Unfortunately, my program DOES NOT decode in real time. But then, Xing's
program cheats. It does not decode the entire file, but plays the lower
half of the subbands and only one channel of a stereo pair. My program
will decode the whole thing, but there's a price to be paid. Decoding
'together.mp2' takes approximately 797 seconds on a Intel 486DX2-66
Windows NT/Visual C++ PC, and 1152 seconds on a Intel 486DX2-66 NetBSD/GCC
V2.4 UNIX system. So I guess that's about 3-5 times slower than necessary
for real-time playback. I've got some tricks I want to try, but they'll
involve a lot of code modification. I also don't think they'll make THAT
much difference. We may be asking these processors to do more than they can.
I'll keep you posted...
Jared Boone (jbo...@patriot.wtfd.orst.edu)
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~Subject: Will MPEG be included in QuickTime ?
From: mwil...@envy.Reed.Edu (Son of Sam)
Date: 24 Mar 1994 09:07:39 GMT
I read a press release for Quicktime 2.3 (due to developers this month :)
and Apple claims that with this new version of their extension one can
get 15 fps at 640 x 480 on an LC 475! and Full motion (30 fps) at the next
screen size down....
That's decent for a low horsepower machine. Whether or not this
proves itself in practice, we'll see...
But the real point of this post revolves around apple's
announcement that QT2.3 incorporates MPEG technology... That's right, now,
instead of needing to convert MPEG to QT, Macs will be MPEG savvy. It
also mentions that you'll be able to encode MPEG's (with sound) with your
Mac...
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~Subject: What about good MPEG Hardware encoders (Optivision) ?
OptImage does sell one (2 actually: Mac&PC)) MPEG-hardware-boards along
with other tools (multiplexer, disc builder, disc burner...)
please change the contact point to:
in...@optimage.com or sa...@optimage.com
We have a Real-Time full SIF MPEG encoding board from Optivision.
The board can only do I and P frames now, but B frames will be supplied
once new Microcode is available from C-Cube.
How much is the Encoder board ? Probably very expensive.. ?
[ about 20.000 $ !!! ]
The streams from this board have a few artifacts, but over-all look
quite good.
Their telephone number in the US is:
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~Subject: What's about CD-I ?
From: Morten Hjerde <10003...@compuserve.com>
Date: 17 Sep 93 13:08:21 EDT
Subject: Re: MPEG-FAQ Audio-part ?
The people I know is working on MPEG is Philips/Compression Labs for their
"digital video" CD-I's. Digigram in France is producing some nice MPEG cards
for the PC. You would want to avoid their older PCX3 cards because their
MPEG implementation were a little odd. Their new PCX5 and PCX3 should be
fine. Cardinal are introducing an MPEG driver for their new PC card. The driver
has not been released. It's developed by Xing. I've played around with
earlier Xing MPEG Audio stuff and it looked and sounded nice. C-Cube also
have written an MPEG codec (for the AD2015 I believe). I don't know if they
are doing anything with it. For broadcast
industry use there are several others, also a couple of German vendors that
makes stand-alone units. I don't have their names here. Here in Norway Tandberg
are making a logger w. MPEG compression.
(I have no connection to any of the above)
Source code? I was hoping you could tell me that <g>.
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~Subject: What is the PCMotion Player ?
From: kot...@mprgate.mpr.ca
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 93 16:12:22 PDT
I recently bought the Optibase PCMotion Player. This is the real
time MPEG 1 decompressor. I have only tested it with a couple of
clips so far but it seems to work very well. The decoded picture is
the best I have seen so far. There are very few artifacts. The two
clips I have tested to date are tigers.mps ( a system level stream
they included with the board) and starwars.mpg (an older video level
clip I had sitting around.) The tigers clip was very good while the
Star Wars was not nearly as good. I don't know if this reflects
advances in encoder technology or that Optibase does some funny
stuff with their files.
The board was very easy to install and ran pretty much the first
time. The only problems I had with the company are that they are
very difficult to contact and seem to be understaffed. I constantly
hear the excuse that Mr X has not been able to contact me because he
is very busy since he is on N different projects. Also they seem to
be a funny company in that their employees seem to continually shift
between their Isreal and two US offices. As you can imagine, it is
very difficult to contact people who constantly change continents!
The other big problem with the board is that it can only take data
in through the ISA bus. It is not clear how to use this sort of
card in a network unless one is willing to dedicate the entire PC to
just one application. The bus on my PC seems quite full when I use
this card. I think using either a T1, MVIP, SCSI, etc interface
might make a more usuable card.
Overall, for the kind of money they want, it seems to be a
worthwhile board except the utility is limited to evaluation of MPEG
and some composing rather than watching actual movies since
networking is weak.
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~Subject: What is the MPEG-2 ISO number ?
From: Tom Pfeifer <pfe...@fokus.gmd.de>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 16:26:01 +0200
Heres the number of the MPEG-2 commission draft:
Workgroup ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC29N 660
Standard ISO-CD 13818 - {1,2,3} (like usual {system, video, audio})
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~Subject: Some papers about MPEG-audio
From: scott.k...@email.HUB.TEK.COM
Subject: MPEG Audio
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 18:47:02 -0800
ISO-MPEG-1 Audio: A Generic Standard for Coding of High Quality
Digital Audio
Karlheinz Brandenburg and Gerhard Stoll
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
October 1994, Volume 42, Number 10
Pages 780-792
Guide to MPEG-1 Audio Standard
Seymour Shlien
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
December 1994, Volumne 40, Number 4
Pages 206-218
Wideband Speech and Audio Coding
Peter Noll
IEEE Communications Magazine
November 1993, Volume 31, Number 11
Pages 34-44
Signal Compression Based on Models of Human Perception
Nikil Jayant, James Johnston and Robert Safranek
Proceedings of the IEEE
October 1993, Volume 81, Number 10
Pages 1385-1421
Overview of the MPEG/Audio Compression Algorithm
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 2187, 1994
pages 260-273
Scott Diamond
\ / Tektronix, Audio Measurement Group
/ \ P.O. Box 500, M.S. 58-639
< s > Beaverton, Oregon 97077-0001
\ / wk: (503) 627-6304 hm: (503) 643-6779
/ \ scott.k...@tek.com
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~Subject: Where can I find more documents about what Berkeley is doing ?
From: Larry Rowe <la...@plateau.cs.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 17:39:36 -0800
o papers/94MMComputing.ps.Z - copies of slides from a highlight talk at
the UC Berkeley Industrial Liason Program on multimedia computing. Main
topics: importance of mosaic/www, video-on-demand architectures and problems,
and desktop video conferencing.
o papers/CMMPEG-SPIE94.ps.Z - A paper describing the heuristics we used
to implement synchronized mpeg video and sparc audio playback in the
CMPlayer system.
o papers/VodsArch-SPIE94.ps.Z - A paper describing the architecture of the
the Berkeley Distributed VOD System that is designed to store thousands
of hours of video material on tertiary storage devices that can be staged
to video file servers.
o papers/VodsDB-SPIE94.ps.Z - A paper that describes the metadata database
in the Berkeley Distributed VOD System. The database contains a variety
of indexes to the video material which a user can query to locate material
of interest.
o papers/VideoCompression-Usenix94.*.ps.Z - Copies of slides from an invited
talk on Video Compression given at Usenix '94 by L. Rowe. The BW file has
a black and white version of the slides with 2 to a page, and the Color file
a color version with 1 slide to a page.
o papers/dv-at-ucb.txt -- A survey of digital video research in the EECS
Department at U.C. Berkeley. This article will appear in the 1994 EECS/ERL
Research Summary.
o papers/compressed.ps.Z
o papers/VodsProp93.ps.Z - a revised version of the Berkeley VOD Server
proposal first released on August 20, 1993.
o papers/VODProp-Rowe.ps.Z -- a rough draft of a proposal to be submitted
to NSF to build a video-on-demand system. Novel feature of the system
is that it includes a large tertiary storage archive and a metadata
database with an ad hoc query browser to search for particular videos.
The archive server talks to several video file servers so that an
organization can share file servers.
o papers/MM93Talk.ps.Z is a copy of the slides used for the talk at the ACM
Multimedia 93 conference for the previous paper. The performance
numbers comparing the mpeg player on different platforms were updated
the week before the conference so they reflect the most recent results.
o papers/{Mpeg94.txt,VODarch94.txt,VODdb94.txt} -- abstracts submitted
to SPIE '94 that describe recent work on integrating our mpeg video
decoder into the CMPlayer and the design of the UCB video-on-demand system.
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~Subject: Who are CD-I producers ?
There is a company called:
ProLearn, Herr Vigneron
[ I would really like to start a list here. Please feedback me ;o) ]
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~Subject: Where can I get VideoCD and CD-I coding ?
Get your own VideoCD or CD-I done via the service bureau !
We offer you the full service to produce an MPEG VideoCD or a CD-I disk with
MPEG full-motion video on it for you.
Just provide the video tapes (S-VHS / Hi-8) and get your own VideoCD back,
playable on Sigma Design's Reel Magic MPEG card, Amiga CD-32 and
Phillips CD-I player. (soon coming out: GOLDSTAR- and JVC- and SAMSUNG-VideoCD
players for around 350 US$ enduser price)
(In this moment we only offer PAL standard VideoCDs and CD-Is, which also could
be played with NTSC players; call for NTSC version)
Please call for current rates:
Hartmann Multimedia Service
Mr. Dipl. Ing. Stefan Hartmann
Berlin, Germany
Tel: ++ 49 30 344 23 66
email:
ha...@harti.de
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~Subject: Who offers MPEG encoding via Internet ?
The sponsor of the MPEG Archive, NB Digital Solutions, offer
encoding services for AVI, MPEG, MPEG-2 and more under
http://www.nbeng.com
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~Subject: Where can I do MPEG encoding ?
We are offering MPEG-1 encoding from VHS, S-VHS, Video8 and Hi-8 tape.
You send us your tape, we will encode it to MPEG-1 standard IBP MPEG
SYSTEM stream, compatible with White book or Reel Magic format.
Standard Format 352x288 PAL or 352x240 NTSC will be supported
Then we can also write it for you on a CD-ROM disk, so that you can play
it on a Philips CD-I player with Digital Video Cartridge or via an MPEG
player card like the Sigma Reel Magic card inside a PC via a CD-ROM drive.
Up to 70 minutes of Digital MPEG Video and Audio will fit on a single CD
disk !
Rates are:
70 DM per Minute (with at least 15 minutes for one order)
60 DM per Minute (if it gets more than 30 minutes)
Writing it on CD-Rom is an additional 150 DM charge per order.
All prices without VAT.
(Current exchange rate is about 1.60 DM / 1 US$)
Please let me know, what you need.
Best regards, Dipl. Ing. Stefan Hartmann, c/o Hartmann Multimedia Service,
Berlin, Germany
email to:
ha...@harti.de
FAX: ++ 49 30- 344 92 79
Phone: ++ 49 30- 344 23 66
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~Subject: What the problem with all these file extensions for MPEG-files ?
Hm, nobody standarized the file extensions yet, the are just common use.
the first MPEG-users (Xing) just used .mpg for a file extension, but
they had their special (non MPEG-standard) format. Then the "invented"
.mp2 for audio only files (well .mp2 looks more like MPEG-2, does it ?
Some had file-extension they wanted, some ignored MS-DOS file systems ...
The following extensions are there:
.mpg could be everything ;o) usally only Xing-format (only I-frame)
.mps MPEG-1 IPB Systemstream (video and audio)
.m1v MPEG-1 IPB only video or systemstream
.mpv MPEG-1 IPB only video (sometime even .vmp)
.mp2 MPEG-1 only audio (mostly layer 1 or 2)
.mpa MPEG-1 only audio (mostly layer 1 or 2) (sometimes even .amp)
.l3 MPEG-1 only audio (layer 3)
.m2v MPEG-2 IPB only video (is there some MPEG-2 audio out ?)
My own idea for file extension looks like this:
.m1s MPEG-1 IPB systemstream (video and audio)
.m1v MPEG-1 IPB videostream
.m1a MPEG-1 IPB audiostream
.m2s MPEG-2 IPB systemstream (video and audio)
.m2v MPEG-2 IPB videostream
.m2a MPEG-2 IPB audiostream
There is no real need for a support of I-frame only streams anymore.
There are PD-players with IPB-frame support for every platform now
and the new players can play the old streams too.
Roman Czyborra is working on getting these extension registered for
WWW-use, so let's see ...
Look up the URL=http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~czyborra/registrations/ for
how this process is going on.
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~Subject: How can I do RTP encapsulation of MPEG1/MPEG2 ?
There is a Internet Draft about that. It is usally called:
draft-hoffman-rtp-mpeg-encap-01.txt
Here's the excerpt:
This draft describes a packetization scheme for MPEG video and audio
streams. The scheme proposed can be used to transport such a video or audio
flow over the transport protocols supported by RTP. Two profiles are
described. The first is designed to support maximum interoperability with
MPEG2 System environments. The second is designed to maximize simplicity of
implementation and to leverage other efforts within IETF.
~Subject: Wo kann ich den MPEG-standard bestellen ?
[ Only for Germans... ]
Ihr koennt den MPEG-draft-I beim Beuth Verlag bekommem.
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~Subject: SECTION 10. - WHERE TO FIND MORE INFOS
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~Subject: What are some good books about MPEG ?
Titel: Bilddatenkompression mit JPEG und MPEG (german)
Autor: Heiner Kuester
Verlag: Franzis
Preis: 78.00 DM incl. 1 CD (Player, mpeg-streams etc.)
Titel: MPEG compression
Author: Bill Pennebaker, Joan Mitchell
Date: July 1994
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~Subject: Where are some good artikels about MPEG ?
Titel: MPEG - ein packendes Format (german)
Paper: UNIXOpen - 12/95
Author: Frank Gadegast
URL: http://www.powerweb.de/mpeg/mpuo12.html
Title: MPEG 2 - ein breites Spektrum (german)
Paper: UNIXOpen - 05/96
Author: Frank Gadegast
URL: http://www.powerweb.de/mpeg/mpuo05.html
Titel: 50 Hot Digital Video Web Sites
Paper: DV, July Issue 1995
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~Subject: What newsgroups discuss MPEG ?
Well, first you can check the related news-groups:
comp.graphics, comp.graphics.animation, comp.compression, comp.multimedia,
comp.sys.amiga.multimedia, comp.mail.multi-media,
alt.binaries.pictures.utilities
The first part of this FAQ about MPEG came from Mark Adler, published
in the FAQ for the newsgroup 'comp.compression'.
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~Subject: How can 'archie' help me ?
Then you can ask 'archie' to find all NEW mpeg-releated software
by sending the following mail (with no title):
set search sub
prog mpeg mpg
quit
to one of the following archie-mail-servers:
arc...@archie.ans.net
arc...@archie.rutgers.edu
arc...@archie.sura.net
arc...@archie.mcgill.ca
arc...@archie.funet.fi
arc...@archie.au
arc...@archie.doc.ic.ac.uk
Or look for it with archie on the Internet like this:
telnet 128.214.6.102
archie
set search sub
prog mpeg mpg
quit
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~Subject: SECTION 11. - QUESTIONS
These are some questions, ideas or whatever problems, where still no
solutions is found or nobody knows an answer. Please contact me via e-mail
if YOU find a solution for:
1) Are there multimedia-specialized mailboxes out there ? Please send
a filelisting of your mpeg-archive, a description of how to obtain
the files, costs, connection times, telefon-numbers etc.
2) Who can send me informations about MPEG-1-Videos stored on CD-I CD's ?
Who can provide a list and keep it up-to-date ?
Who can provide information about CD-I and MPEG in general ?
3) Is this FAQ really readable with the FAQ-mode from emacs ?
Can you read it with a good news-reader question by question ?
Did not try this out ...
4) How many people would like to have a CD-Rom containing material
for testing MPEG-encoders ? Source material, example streams
for several needs, for several formats, comparable encoding
results and messurements and all needed encoding, decoding
tools could be supplied. If there are enough, we might do some.
We already have enough reference material, frames and utils and
ideal streams to compare results.
Please mail to:
if you have more information, than I have.
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THE MPEG-FAQ
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