> > Why not good? Is this very slow? > > Yes, it is SLOW. With an FPGA this size, it could take a second or two > to switch > codecs if we have to reload the FPGA bitstream, which would be quite a > lot of > lost time in a situation where one is watching videos in multiple > formats.
You're worried about 2 seconds every half hour? It takes over 4 minutes to microwave another batch of popcorn. :-) > > I keep hoping that TI (or whoever) will come out with a faster DSP > > and we can do the whole thing in the DSP without an FPGA. > > I agree, it would be nice. The only problem is that DSPs have a long > way to catch > up to FPGAs, so it would be more likely to be the other way around ;-( > We could just wait a year for Murphy's Law :-) The TI DSP is almost fast enough to decode 1080 mpeg2, so the next speed bump might be enough. But if we want H.264... I figure Barcelona will be affordable in a couple years, although it will still be too expensive and power hungry for this box. Not sure what I would need 128 bit floating point for. _______________________________________________ Open-hardware-ethervideo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-hardware-ethervideo
