Zoltan, > Btw, yes - few of the mplayer developers are from Szeged - and if you > would like to have some assistance to this encoding support - I can > help to you to find the right persons. As far as I remember at Fedora > the WebM support was made/integrated by Bert Desmet, for Mplayer I > think the best man for you is Arpad Gereoffy (he is from Budapest - > http://interoot.hu). Hopefully both guys can help you. For Ogg/Theora > I don't have any contact yet, but I will look for you if it's helps.
He, OK great! I did remember the Szeged connection right :-) But... please realize that I am talking about a different beast from the normal mplayer codec here. I am talking about "one layer below" that, in an HDL programmed SoC design. So the question is whether either there is someone already good at video codecs in a HDL, or up to the challenge of going to that level. The idea is that Milkymist One could encode the video output in real-time, let's say into Ogg Theora or WebM, and then stream it out over Ethernet (or receive and decode a stream). Google released an IP core that can do WebM encoding, and they say it's "open", but it's a twisted variant of open. Open here means only after signing a "long-form contract", agreeing to not redistribute the sources, etc. http://blog.webmproject.org/2011/05/blueberry-vp8-hardware-encoder-ip.html So that won't work. Elphel implemented a very hacky Ogg Theora encoder years ago, and the sources are GPL licensed and online. http://elphel.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/elphel/fpga/theora/ http://elphel.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/elphel/fpga/theora_353/ However, this implementation is not complete, and unmaintained for a number of years. Then there is also Dirac, but afaik no free HDL sources around. My idea was that maybe some old mplayer dev is looking for a new challenge, and taking video codecs into an fpga may be such a challenge. Just an idea, hope I explained it clearly. Cheers, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
