Software:

• Mpeg-1 video compression was done with mpeg, written by the Portable Video Research Group at Stanford.
• Mpeg-1 audio compression was done with the reference implementation from ISO. (the MPEG/audio ad hoc committee on software simulation)
• Mpeg system stream multiplexing was done with mplex, by Christoph Moar.
• Mpeg-2 compression and multiplexing was done with ffmpeg.
• Playback was done with mtv (Copyright (c) 1997, MpegTV LLC ), system_play (Developed by James Boucher([email protected]) Ziv Yaar([email protected]) Elisa Rubin([email protected]) John Palmer([email protected]) at the Multimedia Communications Lab Boston University [email protected]), and mplayer.
• Random still image manipulation was done with xv by John Bradley, GIMP (by a great many people), and Xfig by Supoj Sutanthavibul, Brian V. Smith, PaulKing, and others.
• Digitization, or at least getting the data off the device driver and onto the disk, was done with videocat, by me (Tommy Johnson).
• A generic BT848 based frame grabber card was used, using the bktr driver, based on work by Jim Lowe, Mark Tinguely, Amancio Hasty, and others.
• A generic sound card was used for audio, using the pcm driver, by Luigi Rizzo.
• HTML editing was done with vi.
• HTML rendering was done with mmm (by Francois Rouaix, at INRIA).
• The ISO 9660 filesystem was made with mkisofs, written by Eric Youngdale, copyright held by Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated.
• The filesystem was put onto the CD with cdrecord, by Joerg Schilling.
• The whole pile was executed under FreeBSD.