On Thursday 25 October 2007 08:01, Dave Henderson wrote: > Gang, > > I am working on an embedded device that plays movies. The process is > still in the design/concept phase so nothing has been purchased or created > (software wise) yet. In considering the hardware, I am wondering which > would be the better architecture between MIPS and Intel. Recommendations > for other hardware are welcome. The device will be using directFB with > MPlayer. Does anyone else have any information that would be handy?
For embedded you want to go with low power which pretty much blows Intel arch's out of the water. Frankly, I've been VERY impressed with the Davinci chip. Downside is that the DSP side is not free :( -- and thus cancels out the the need for MPlayer. The ARM side is easy to work with and there is a public kernel that is in pretty good development. If you would rather, Montavista also has tools that are pretty spiffy (tho it does have a learning curve :( TI also just came out with a chip (DM355? something like that) which has a builtin MPEG decoder - but they are being a little shady as to whether it is "free (no cost)" or "free (sw drivers are extra cost)". MIPS is an unknown to me, but frankly, it looks like the world is heading towards ARM - which will only make things better. Cheers, Lloyd _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list directfb-users@directfb.org http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
