TelcoLou posted on May 30 2006 at 07:33 PM said:
I love the mods here
I see your points Epicenter, I was merely asking if you had concrete proof of what was going on from personal experience.
I agree to the point of increased consumption from additional hardware, including scalers.
I wonder what the frame processor is doing about scaling, it is possible that the frame processor could scale it as part of the decoding process, unlikely though.
As I mentioned earlier, there is an MMSP2 scaler, and a CX TV chip scaler, which, or both, do you think is causing the draw? Do you believe the frame ("video") processor is causing a large part of the power drain.
I suppose all one would need to do is disable various options, such as output, and see what the power drain is on raw de-compressing of video, then see what the 2 scalers are drawing for power. If one of them is on needlessly we simply need better written software, it is coming along nicely as is.
On topic, we simply need a menu replacement that is scalable, it can be 640x480 full time and scaled while on the LCD, then on the TV it will be fine, 20-Odd pictures should be nothing to our scaler/raw ARM power, it can even Cache the scaled versions if necessary.
The menu is open source? Either way the skin packs we have are brilliant compared to the firmware supplied with most DVD players out there. I don't know if more resolution is absolutely necessary, but if it is simply use a menu replacer that has configurable buttons, move them to a 640x480 grid and modify the source to do a call for a 640x480 frame buffer. It will only be 4x the data of the menu now, I don't think it would impact the function or speed too much, it might even look much better

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