[mythtv-users] Another possible frontend, the BeagleBoard

[Brian Phillips]

Greg Estabrooks wrote:
>> Just saw this on the Digikey frontpage:
>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/beagleboard-149-linux-system
>> 
>> 600MHz ARM, plus a DSP core that can do 720p.
>> 
>> It appears there are patches to ffmpeg to support the board.
> 
> 
>  That does look cool, and from their own photos you can see
> mythfrontend running on it, I highly doubt you would be decoding 720p
> content on it, regardless of whether or not it could display 720p.  
> 
> 
>  Or are those patches to take advantage of some custom
> mpeg2/4/h264 decoder I missed ? If so then I'll pick one up right
> away to play with! 

A "DSP core" usually implies dedicated hardware decode and/or encode.  If
you check the datasheet on a TMS320C6412, that seems to be the DSP chip
family they're using.  The C64X referring to the last 5 characters in the
name of the chip.  If they've patched ffmpeg to use the DSP chip rather than
the CPU, you can expect real-time decode and/or encode. 

> 
>  It would likely make a cool SDTV frontend...but without some sort of
> hardware decoder .... 
> 
> 
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