On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:37:51 +0100
Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Several companies are now making chips that do video
> decoding, including HD H.264 at reasonable bitrates.
> Some also do encoding. Some are kinda spendy, but at
> least one is under $40, probably less if we don't need
> both chips of the chipset, and I assume there are volume
> discounts. Some are under 1 Watt, thus both cheaper and
> more energy efficient than using a CPU to decode.
I had a short look at those chips once and they all
seemed to be build around a CPU or DSP core to do the
decoding, which i think is not very efficient (but i might
be wrong).
I started a discussion on ffmpeg-devel[1] to see what
the gurus of video decoding have to say about this.
Attila Kinali
[1] http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2007-July/032265.html
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