Video Playback virtually impossible on Neo Freerunner? (Re: Video of Qt 4.4 on Neo1973: brings iPhone like graphics)

[wim.delvaux at adaptiveplanet.com]

On Monday 28 April 2008 17:40:38 Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:26:43 -0500 "Tim Shannon"
> <shannon.timothy at gmail.com>
>
> babbled:
> > But isn't it still limited by the bandwidth available from the micro SD
> > card?  Maybe I misunderstood that.
> >
> > Basically what I'm curious about is if in the future someone does take
> > the time to figure out and write the appropriate driver for the glamo
> > chip, will we be able to watch movies on the free runner?
>
> please follow the thread. it *IS* possible. you just need to give up
> something. resolution or framerate. simple as that. the glamo has limits
> like any piece of hardware. they are just not very "extreme" limits. they
> are rather narrow.

Euh, I thought that is it because the glamo and the SD are on the same 'bus' 
or something that there is a bottleneck, not because of the glamo.

Or am I missing something ?

W

>
> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Mikko Rauhala <mjrauhal at cc.helsinki.fi>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > On ma, 2008-04-28 at 13:59 +0200, wim.delvaux at adaptiveplanet.com wrote:
> > > > What if you could use one of those 'coming very soon' Laser
> > > > projection device(s) connected to USB ?
> > >
> > > You'd be looking at 12 Mbit/s max for the USB1.1, not fun.
> > >
> > > Really peeps, face it, seems that the sane way to do non-crappy video
> > > on the Freerunner is to get driver support for that Glamo mpeg-4
> > > decoding (remember, the hardware is capable). Hopefully everyone's
> > > grasping at straws makes OM bump up the priority a bit (though again,
> > > for now there are certainly more important things to do).
> > >
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