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

[Bin Chen]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Ian Stirling <OpenMoko at mauve.plus.com> wrote:
> Jens Fursund wrote:
>
>
> >
> > > Mikko Rauhala wrote:
> > >
> > >  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).
> > >
> >
> > Is mpeg-4 decoding in the Glamo chip only video? Or could we use it to
> > decode audio as well to decrease CPU-time, thereby having more
> > batterytime for playing mpeg4 audio?
> >
> >
>
>  Video only.

Why we need to choose smedia's product? I remember ATI(AMD) has same
product but with audio capability. The sync of video and audio may be
a problem if the HW lacks of audio ability.

Bin