You don't need a so big dsp. TI will sell a chip for a phone with a c55 which do 720p. This is a 20$ chip !
2007/10/4, Attila Kinali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:13:19 +0200 > "Nicolas Boulay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What about a tiny dsp chip for video decompressing ? i don"t know the > > price, but HD decompression in a dedicated dsp should be much more > > energy efficient than an codec on main cpu. > > I thought about this, but the problem with that is, that a tiny > DSP will not have enough computing power to decode a video in > realtime. What we would need would be a quite fast (and thus big) > DSP with high clock rate and everything. I don't think that there > is still that much freedom left on the board that such a beast could > be easily fit in. > > Beside there is the problem of bandwidht. 60 wires are very little > if you want to transfere data at a high rate. > > A much better idea would be to use the IDC connector and connect > a DSP over it. > > Yes, i have some thoughts about how to do fast video decoding > with OGD1, but i couldn't put them into any form that could > be even remotely implemented as my work gets too often into > the way of my free time these days :-/ > (Maybe i should look for a job where i can invest more times > on OGP and OSS in generall...) > > Apropos video decoding, how many people here are familiar with > video codecs and know how to write VHDL/Verilog? Resp how many > of the people here would be interested in getting the required > knowledge to help with it? > > Attila Kinali > -- > Praised are the Fountains of Shelieth, the silver harp of the waters, > But blest in my name forever this stream that stanched my thirst! > -- Deed of Morred > _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
