[beagleboard] BB, OMAP3, DSP and WebM/VP8

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Hi BB folks,

probably people in charge of this do already get their hands dirty and
will inform the community in due time what to expect from the WebM
project [1] and the BB.

I hope this message will get us this information a little earlier. :wink: I
already found [2], [3] and [4] on the Web.

[2] states in the comment that support is planned for all OMAP versions.

I have to admit I do not know a lot about this stuff. I just remember
that the DSP is needed for h264, 720p playback [5]. So I guess this also
applies to WebM/VP8.

So could someone please tell me, what is needed to get WebM supported by
the BB. (The following questions might not make any sense.) Is just a
GStreamer plugin needed? Will TI contribute support to use the DSP for
decoding? Can only TI write this support? Is there a roadmap
already? :wink: …

Thanks,

Paul

[1] http://www.webmproject.org/
[2] http://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/mobile_momentum/archive/2010/05/19/our-omap-processors-embrace-webm-and-vp8-with-open-arms.aspx
[3] http://www.beagleboard.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2010-05-19#T16:30:38
[4] http://www.beagleboard.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2010-05-20#T08:33:00
[5] http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard/browse_thread/thread/939e179b914acac7/405f0886ef4bf450

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On2 has had a VP8 DSP codec for quite a while now, but I suspect you need to pay $$$ for that.

regards,

Koen

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I played briefly with vp8 on an omap3, decoding it on the arm (what
google released has armv7 and neon support already). It was ok to play
a 360p demo file, but was far to slow for 720p...