[MEncoder-users] hardware offload?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 6/10/07, Dieter <freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com> wrote:
> > 3. Can i add any hardware to reduce the loads on the machine?
>
> Has anyone looked into the Broadcom BCM70010 and BCM70012 chips?
> They claim to decode HD, Mpeg2 up to 125 Mbps, H.264 up to 40 Mbps.
>
> Available as chips, or on PCIe, PCIe mini, and ExpressCard 34 cards.
> Under $40.  2 Watts

It's probably possible to do this, but you'd have to add support for
it in MEncoder or FFmpeg, which can be quite hard if these chips are
shipped with no doc and no SDK (or distributed under NDA, in which
case your work has even less chance to get merged to mencoder/ffmpeg).

Guillaume
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