New NthCode Player on BeagleBoard video

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We’ve uploaded a new video of NthCode Player running on the BeagleBoard.

You can play it from the links below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM35XLydP78
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/4q-wx1-J950/

The second link is for folks who may be here in China where YouTube is blocked.

We’re planning to release an alpha for folks with BeagleBoards to try once we fix some stability bugs. I’ll send an update to this mailing list when we’re ready.

Just a quick note: While we are using the YUV video overlay, we are not currently using the DSP or SGX cores to accelerate media playback. That being said, we’re able to decode video at about 500x400 pixels with audio at the same time. After we get this alpha out, we’ll take another look at the DSP to see what we can do there.

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Peter McDermott <peter@nthcode.com> writes:

Just a quick note: While we are using the YUV video overlay, we are
*not* currently using the DSP or SGX cores to accelerate media
playback. That being said, we're able to decode video at about
500x400 pixels with audio at the same time. After we get this alpha
out, we'll take another look at the DSP to see what we can do there.

Are you using FFmpeg or something else for codecs? Just curious...

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Mans,

We're using the gst-ffmpeg plugin for gstreamer, this way, we can
integrate other gstreamer codecs (such as TI's DSP decoders) and
change the ranking to get the accelerated ones when they're available
on a given piece of hardware.

Regards,

Peter