Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. Summary: Review Request: libcrystalhd - Broadcom Crystal HD device interface library https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553717 Summary: Review Request: libcrystalhd - Broadcom Crystal HD device interface library Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: medium Priority: medium Component: Package Review AssignedTo: nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ReportedBy: jarod@xxxxxxxxxx QAContact: extras-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CC: notting@xxxxxxxxxx, fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx Estimated Hours: 0.0 Classification: Fedora Target Release: --- Spec URL: http://jwilson.fedorapeople.org/packaging/libcrystalhd/libcrystalhd.spec SRPM URL: http://jwilson.fedorapeople.org/packaging/libcrystalhd/libcrystalhd-0.9.25-1.fc12.src.rpm Description: The libcrystalhd library provides userspace access to Broadcom Crystal HD video decoder devices. The device supports hardware decoding of MPEG-2, h.264 and VC1 video codecs, up to 1080p at 40fps. The crystalhd kernel driver was accepted to the linux staging tree just a few days ago, and this library is the sole way one is supposed to interface with the decoder from userspace. It does also require a firmware image, which doesn't yet have a redistributable license applied to it, but Broadcom is working on making it so. For the moment, I'm using a modified tarball that strips out the firmware, but in the future, intend to produce a firmware sub-package straight off of this package. While one might be slightly scared at first blush with the mention of mpeg2, h.264 and vc1 decoding, its done entirely in hardware, which has its own paid-for codec licenses, so this gives us a viable way to decode video on Fedora without any patent issues. Applications simply dma an encoded bitstream into the device, and it spits out raw decoded frames of video for you to do with as you please (i.e., display them on your screen). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review