[MPlayer-users] RE: [Dxr3-devel] DXR3 Performance (used to be No Signal)

[Hermann Himmelbauer]

On Monday 22 April 2002 23:33, degen at home.se wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> > I am always looking for fun EE projects. I have access to some Virtex
> > boards in my department. How hard would it be to implement a hardware
> > DivX encoder/decoder on an FPGA? I mean, would it require more than a
> > thousand slices (or a thousand hours of development time :-)? I digress.
>
> Hmmmm. Interesting, but I suppose that divx decoding is a pretty complex
> matter, I believe you would be better off with some sort of processor.
> Something RISCy maybe. :)

I also don't think a FPGA will be the right choice. I would perhaps better 
choose a DSP or something like that. Moreover you should be aware that the 
lifetime of those codecs seems to be quite short, so you should design your 
system in a way that you can upgrade it to newer codecs. Besides that there 
are probably some legal issues...

		Regards,
		Hermann

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