On Wed, 04 May 2005 10:35:35 +0200 Rudolf Marek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think comunnity wants it. First the FPGA board will be bought by > universities to learn students about peripherials for PC and graphics > stuff ;) I know of a few companies who regularly use FPGA prototype cards for computation of stuff that the cpu is too slow for. Those would be an interesting market too. > Interresting "will buy it" feature could be "patent free" theora codec > acceleration. http://www.theora.org <side_note> Theora is not patent free </side_note> Actualy it would be better if we could load any decoding system into the core. But therefore we need freely available bitstream generators. I would put that back, after we finished the whole card. > This is completly new idea maybe would be good to invite people from > theora project to disscus (their IRC channel is #theora on same > server) I'd rather invite the ffmpeg people, as i think that theora is too much of a vaporware project than something that will lead to something, but that's my personal opinion. But what is sure is, that this whole thing about codecs is not important. What we need is a working card, not a never ending project. Attila Kinali -- éãåããéãåã _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
