[Open-graphics] decoding video in real-time

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 4/30/07, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj at acm.org> wrote:
> Attila Kinali wrote:
> > Using a on board general purpose CPU on the graphics card will
> > not give you any advantage at all. If ae 3d card focus on 3d then PC CPU is too slow, how
> > do you want to beat that with a CPU that you can put onto a graphics
> > card without implementing half a PC on it?
>
> Well actually, you would need half a PC, but half a PC is now one chip
> -- northbridge.
>

shouldnt this go into another card? then arrange the video card to get
the decoded image from the decoder and maybe use it as a texture?

we let the 3d card focus on 3d then we let the image card focus on
images. maybe we can put jpeg decoding in there too. nice for mjpeg.

> --
> JRT
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