Thread: N900 video decoding/encoding hardware accelerated?
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zaheerm is offline zaheerm
2009-11-15 , 05:29
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#8
Originally Posted by Liplap View Post
So which players (built-in video player, mplayer, vlc) are able to offload some of the decoding work to the DSP? Does the DSP offer any hardware acceleration for decoding other formats than H.264, say MPEG2?
The official firmware accelerates mpeg4, h264 and h263 with dsp. All gstreamer based apps can use it including default media player and zoutube.

Mplayer and vlc does not offload anything to the dsp.
 

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