On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:16:40 -0700 James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> This would appear to be a motion compensation issue. IIUC, TI went > >> to hardware motion compensation for the TMS320DM6467. > > > > Where do you see hardware motion compensation? > > http://focus.ti.com/lit/ml/sprn249/sprn249.pdf Ok. i didnt read the marketing blah. > > The TMS320DM6467 looks to me just like a VLIW DSP combined with an > > ARM chip and a lot of peripherial stuff. No fancy decoder unit. > > Read more! It also includes > > Dual Programmable High-Definition Video Image Co-Processor > (HDVICP) Engines > > Video Data Conversion Engine (VDCE) > Horizontal and Vertical Downscaling > Chroma Conversion (4:2:2↔4:2:0) Yes, but what does it do exactly? and how is it programmed? These are the interesting questions. There is no real information out there. The best thing i could find on the web was a video on youtube! Though, i actually dont want to know as i might be tainted by that knowledge. > > BTW: What is a hardware motion compensation for you? I ask because > > the process of motion compensation is something that looks always > > very similar, no matter how much you do in hardware. > > > Hardware motion compensation would be motion compensation done (or > partially done) by hardware dedicated to that use only. Uhm.. i dont want to be picky, but do you count a general purpose CPU as an hardware motion compensation unit, if it is dedicated for that use only? Attila Kinali -- Linux ist... wenn man einfache Dinge auch mit einer kryptischen post-fix Sprache loesen kann -- Daniel Hottinger _______________________________________________ Open-hardware mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-hardware
