Youtube Video Playback on Neo Freerunner? (Re: Video Playback virtually impossible on Neo Freerunner?)

Federico Lorenzi florenzi at gmail.com
Sat Apr 26 12:10:28 CEST 2008


Just thinking out loud here, as I probably have no clue what I'm
speaking about, but what about something like XDamage, that only
updates the areas of the screen that have changed?

Cheers,
Federico

On 4/26/08, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <raster at openmoko.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:56:44 +0200 "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)"
> <mail at 3v1n0.net>
> babbled:
>
> > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > > On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:38:24 +0200 "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)"
> > > <mail at 3v1n0.net> babbled:
> > >> Another format that maybe works on streaming (if I've not misunderstood
> > >> what has been stated) is
> > >>   * 5: 320x240 at 30fps flv file
> > >
> > > no - not going to work. 21fps at best. :(
> >
> > Ah... I thought that the limitation was only on playing media saved on
> > SD, not on data streaming from the net.
> >
> > Anyway if the player frame-dropping is enabled (or setting the -fps
> > value to 20 in mplayer, for example), I guess we could get a better
> > video quality than the other formats...
>
> as per the thread (just scroll back through it) there is a general
> limitation
> of video bus bandwidth. this will always limit the amount of data you can
> feed
> to the graphics chip (the glamo). this SAME bus is SHARED with SD Card data.
> so
> that same bandwidth now is for both functions, not just graphics.
>
> i tested - 21fps is what i got for my 320x240 test mp3g4 file (of course
> bitrate will vary this framerate, and different codecs will also affect it).
>
> --
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster at openmoko.org>
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