Today is a great day indeed, Dreamcast media player demo released (DivX only currently).

Here is what the author has to say:

“Originally, this was intended to be a test program for a PC media player. It plays only OpenDivX files with no sound, but the following decoders will be implemented (and optimized) soon:
Mpeg audio layer 123, AC3, OggVorbis, DivX (M****S*** DivX), Mpeg video 1&2. We have used various free source codes (OpenDivX, MpegLib, …) to understand how each codec works but EACH CODEC HAS BEEN TOTALLY REWRITTEN, so don’t ask for sources…
There are still some performance issues. Currently, only some routines have been optimized and the iDCT is not one of them. You can find some ASM routines (under GPL) with this demo, but the other routines are proprietary. Note that we give also the iDCT routine that we have begun to optimize in ASM, hoping that someone will help us to do it (this is the harder routine and we don’t have much time to play with it currently).”

To download it go to the Official Site Here thanks once again to the Wraggster for this great news.