XvMC does only accelerate MPEG-2, and not many use it, because the de-interlacing you can get sucks. And for MPEG-2, you usually don't need hardware acceleration anyway. nVidia, like ATI, are moving away from video overlays and have some pretty nice GPU-based video decoding built into their cards using the GPU (most of it probably implemented as shader programs). But you can't use any of that with linux, you are basically down to hardware video scaling, which the newest cards no longer really support. It is high time for a new, industry standard API for video. I hope that's what they are doing.
As I understand the EULA, installing flash on a STB requires a license and ist not free. So far, so good. Has anyone tried (and succeeded) in obtaining a license for such uses from macromedia? My attempts have been unsucessful so far. They have been surprised by our inquiry about a license. So far, we don't even know if they sell licenses at all, nor what they cost.
I wouldn't blame the hardware people for this. They just tried to cheat their way out of the interlacing mess. De-interlacing a picture is damn hard, and probably not worth the effort in this case. This is exactly what follows from introducing an interlaced HD television standard. The people responsible for this should be blamed.
BTW, here in germany, lots of 'high end' plasma displays are sold that have less than 70% of our SD TV standard's resolution, because they use NTSC panels. They think that people won't notice, and they are right.
If just somebody would make the most obvious use of that technology: Use it for broadcast IP. Imagine how many video streams, usenet feeds and software mirrors could be run over it.
Emulating unicast by dividing bandwidth on a broadcast medium is anything but elegant.
This 'free' access will still be more expensive than regular internet access. Reason: The tariff for local calls at daytime is higher than the tariff for internet access. Around $2.40/h. My telephone costs are higher than the rent. Or: Bandwith to my local internet provider ist 10 times more expensive than from my internet provider to the rest of the world.
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XvMC does only accelerate MPEG-2, and not many use it, because the de-interlacing you can get sucks. And for MPEG-2, you usually don't need hardware acceleration anyway.
nVidia, like ATI, are moving away from video overlays and have some pretty nice GPU-based video decoding built into their cards using the GPU (most of it probably implemented as shader programs).
But you can't use any of that with linux, you are basically down to hardware video scaling, which the newest cards no longer really support.
It is high time for a new, industry standard API for video. I hope that's what they are doing.
As I understand the EULA, installing flash on a STB requires a license and ist not free. So far, so good.
Has anyone tried (and succeeded) in obtaining a license for such uses from macromedia? My attempts have been unsucessful so far. They have been surprised by our inquiry about a license. So far, we don't even know if they sell licenses at all, nor what they cost.
I wouldn't blame the hardware people for this. They just tried to cheat their way out of the interlacing mess. De-interlacing a picture is damn hard, and probably not worth the effort in this case.
This is exactly what follows from introducing an interlaced HD television standard. The people responsible for this should be blamed.
BTW, here in germany, lots of 'high end' plasma displays are sold that have less than 70% of our SD TV standard's resolution, because they use NTSC panels. They think that people won't notice, and they are right.
Don't confuse PCI-X with PCI Express. PCI-X is PCI, clocked at 100/133 MHz. PCI Express is the former 3GIO technology
.. and Flight Simulator.
And the aqueduct.
If just somebody would make the most obvious use of that technology: Use it for broadcast IP. Imagine how many video streams, usenet feeds and software mirrors could be run over it.
Emulating unicast by dividing bandwidth on a broadcast medium is anything but elegant.
This has already been reversed. See the newer article on heise
This 'free' access will still be more expensive than regular internet access.
Reason: The tariff for local calls at daytime is higher than the tariff for internet access. Around $2.40/h. My telephone costs are higher than the rent.
Or: Bandwith to my local internet provider ist 10 times more expensive than from my internet provider to the rest of the world.