On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:49:38 -0700 James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.sigmadesigns.com/public/Products/SMP8630/SMP8630_series.html > > I'm not sure if a single chip solution would be best. We basically need > three modules: Be wary of single chip solutions! Those tend to be made for setop boxes in which the marked allowes fully closed designs where you get a binary blob as driver and one as firmware. If you'd know the storries i have heard, you'd not even consider those as a possible solution > Decoder -> Scaler/ColorSpace -> FrameBuffer Decoder alone is enough, if we base the design on OGA (which i highly recomend!) Beside, we have to consider also other standards than h.264. If the solution should have some marked coverage it has to support at least MPEG-2 (also known as h.262) and be extensible to new emerging standards. But therefor we need to know what is out there in the video coding world and have to read a few standards first. Thus i highly recomend that you have a look at the MPEG-2[1], MPEG-4 (part 2), h.264[2] (also known as MPEG-4 part 10) and VC-1 standards before looking for possible solutions. If you have time, you should also have a look at snow, dirac and theora. Also a look at the current academic research on 3D transformed codecs or wavelet based codecs wouldn't hurt. Attila Kinali [1] http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.262-200002-I/en [2] http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.264-200503-I/en -- 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-hardware mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-hardware
