-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lourens Veen wrote: > On Monday 03 July 2006 01:48, Dieter wrote: >> Do you (or anyone) have any thoughts on JRT's suggestion of using >> a DSP chip? The decoder needs to handle the most common formats, >> mpeg at the very least, to avoid transcoding. Transcoding takes >> a lot of CPU, and Theora is lossy. > > True. What would be nice would be a CPU with a built-in DSP, so > that the CPU can handle the network stuff and OSD and so on, and > the DSP could do the heavy-duty decoding work. > > I don't suppose Sony would let us borrow their Cell design?
I suspect IBM will sell you as many as you want to buy. Although I think from memory sony have exclusive rights for a while, they'r esupposed to be available to others after a certain date (Might even have passed already, not sure, I guess I could check). Lots of info on <http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/Cell_Broadband_Engine> no prices but it's listed as a product... H -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEqSym/3QXwQQkZYwRAraMAKDKF+bRhSwM4WSMiCFcPFcvjhUE1wCgi6Ud kIWYNSPAJetNPYCuJspP0jw= =Ffgb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
