Lloyd Sargent wrote: > 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.
What do you mean by DSP side not being free? What if one writes his own assembler and kernel modules and MPEG DSP code based on publically available documents? -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list directfb-users@directfb.org http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
