[FFmpeg-devel] [Hardware Accelerator for Video and Audio]

[Andreas Setterlind]

On 2/21/08, kenye ye <kenyeby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hardware, (again I am not asking your hardware to act like a 'GPU-like
> > accelerator', I am only asking about the concept of being
> > programmable).
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_to_Metal
> >
> > Verses fully hardcoding it which these days can many times be
> > considered a bad thing, see:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcoded
>
>  The hardware is not fully programable.
>  It provides somehow flexibility to prevent errors in hardware and decode
> different profile bitstreams.

Then at the very least will it be firmware upgradable?