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RISC/DSP chip comes with Linux, targets HD video (LinuxDevices)

[Posted December 4, 2007 by ris]

LinuxDevices takes a look at Texas Instruments' DaVinci family chip. "Texas Instruments (TI) announced a new DaVinci family chip claimed capable of transcoding high-definition video at line rates. The TMS320DM6467 system-on-chip (SoC) weds a 297MHz ARM9 core with a 600MHz C64+ DSP, and is available with a development board and software stack based on MontaVista Linux."

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Posted Dec 5, 2007 12:20 UTC (Wed) by pheldens (guest, #19366) [Link]

Good news, hope some cheap addin cards become available, for soft decoding h264 1080p with
mplayer you need a serious CPU now, (>/= AMD X2 4800 or core2 equivalent) (settings like
-lavdopts skiploopfilter=all help a little)

RISC/DSP chip comes with Linux, targets HD video (LinuxDevices)

Posted Dec 5, 2007 15:58 UTC (Wed) by adamgundy (subscriber, #5418) [Link]

the article looks to be a bit confused about the speeds of the two components, half way down
it swaps them around.. a quick check on TI's website suggests the first paragraph is correct.

RISC/DSP chip comes with Linux, targets HD video (LinuxDevices)

Posted Dec 6, 2007 16:12 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link]

Cool - first TI open up their c5x toolchain (sorry, can't remember the reference) and now this. Have they finally Got It^TM?