On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Wolfgang Spraul <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Fully functioning as in "working", or as in "OpenCores Certified"?
>
> (sorry I think the model where this worked best 333, not 323)
>
> I don't know to which degree it works, and how reusable it is. It just
> came up when Andrey and me talked, and he mentioned he once spent
> 6 months to implement an Ogg Theora encoder for the Elphel 333 camera.
> He stopped maintaining and up-leveling it into newer cameras, because
> nobody cared or joined the project.
>
> Andrey is a 100% "I want stuff to work" person, so I am pretty sure at
> least in that model (333), the Ogg Theora encoder worked. Andrey's
> code has a reputation for being badly documented/hard to read/hard to
> reuse. Also there are probably endless details one could improve, as
> always. The code is certainly downloadable somewhere, under a 'normal'
> license (normal to Andrey means GPL).
>
> A quick googling of 'elphel camera ogg theora encoder' found
>
> http://www.elphel.com/articles/elphel_theora_slides_single.pdf
> http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=Design_Ideas
> http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Building-an-Ogg-Theora-camera-using-an-FPGA-and-embedded-Linux/
>
I think the codec priorities for MM related projects should be:
* mjpeg (easy and almost ready)
* theora (elphel implementation is too complex, too hard of maintain,
without motion compensation)
* VP8 ("doesn't exist until it's released" -- Wolfgang)
-- andrés
> He seems to be more interested in Dirac nowadays.
>
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