Thread: BeagleBoard OMAP35xx
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lardman is offline lardman
2008-09-04 , 20:51
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#35
Using the ARM Cortex alone, or with the help of the DSP + associated coprocessors?
The Big Buck Bunny demo everybody always sees is decoded with the help of a lot of NEON optimizations by omapfb. It does not have sound and runs entirely on the Cortex. IVA decoding isn't present yet, but will be coming in the future, and it will also be able to handle 720p. #beagle on Freenode can probably offer some clearer details.
Ah, ok so it is possible without using the IVA (aka DSP). I was just wondering whether it had the possibility to decode hi-def video, but someone still had to write the code for it. Looks like it's actually got enough guts in the Cortex (which can run existing code) to do it, which is nice.