Hello Manu, Monday, November 6, 2006, 5:05:35 PM, you wrote: > Hello David, > david may wrote: >> Hello Manu, >> >> Monday, November 6, 2006, 12:52:44 PM, you wrote: >> >>> Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >>>> Benny Amorsen wrote: >>>>>>>>>> "KS" == Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>>> KS> The whole HDTV thing is of no interest to me until there is a DVB >>>>> KS> card that can actually replay HDTV in hardware. >>>>> >>>>> Why would it have to be the DVB card doing it? That seems to be the >>>>> job of the graphics card and the CPU. >>>> Well, call me old-fashioned, but I believe that for normal >>>> live tv viewing a DVB card should be able to do the job >>>> entirely on its own. VDR just tells it which channel to tune >>>> to and that's it. It's this "take some old PC, put in a DVB card >>>> and have a digital video recorder" thing ;-). >>>> >> >>> Currently H.264 decoding in software is a large overhead in the short >>> term (for high bit rate HD streams), but wouldn't be the same in the >>> long run, considering the increase in the number of CPU cores. In the >>> long run there wouldn't be many cards doing hardware decoding. >> >>> Even if DVB HD FF card were there, would be a bit too expensive as well. >> >> >>> Manu >> >> the addition of a simple cheap and low power current re-programable chip such as the KiloCore FPGA >> might have been a very good thing to add for the future expansion/cards rather than some >> 'specialized chips (called DSPs)' but thats perhaps OT so ill just mention it in passing interest. > Sounds quite interesting, multiple PPC Cores on a FPGA. >> http://www.rapportincorporated.com/ >> http://www.rapportincorporated.com/kilocore/kc256.html >> "Rapport?s initial chip, the KC256, includes 256 processing elements in a 16x16 array, >> with a peak of 25 Giga Byte Operations per second (GBops) at 100 MHz while using less than 500 mW. >> For even higher performance, multiple KC256 chips can be clustered. >> >> The KC256High performance at low power consumption makes Kilocore? ideal for demanding >> applications like advanced security. A KC256 runs the IDEA digital security decryption >> algorithm 10 times faster than an ARM7®. And the ARM7 consumes 4 times the power >> (120 mW vs. 500 mW), giving the KC256 a 40x power/performance advantage. Compared to >> a 1.8 GHz Pentium, the KC256 offers a 500x power/performance advantage. " >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilocore >> "Kilocore, from Rapport Inc. and IBM, is a high-performance, low-power multicore processor, >> with 1025 cores. It contains a single PowerPC processing core, and 1024 8-bit Processing Elements >> running at 125 MHz each, which can be dynamically reconfigured, connected by a shared interconnect. >> It allows high performance parallel processing." >> >> now while the kiloCore about is marketed for so called hand held >> (DVB-h(2) type products, theres no reason why they and the larger >> units couldn't also be used for higher res video etc, it just takes >> the hardware people here and elsewhere to put them in as standard in >> all the prototype boards. > Maybe OT, but any idea about the pricing on the same, being curious, you > know .. > Their website seems to very slow. > Best Regards, > Manu afraid i dont yet, their a member of the power/PPC group http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=72ab4f08518624185b52c5b50d2bdfa9 so perhaps BBRV (bill buck of Genesi) can put anyone interested in it in contact with the guys and their tech/CEO's etc. it cant heart to ask can it 8) -- Best regards, david mailto:david.may10@xxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
