Multi-Media Capibilities

[AireTamStorm]

Yup, but that would require full DSP access. Access to proprietary DSP codecs that cost a certain amount of money for each device. So unless Pandora has some way to legally purchase and install those proprietary codecs, or unless the cost of those come with the purchase of the Pandora (I guess it hasn't been calculated like that), then I guess only way would be to hack DSP codecs or make some open source ones (which would still probably be illegal in software patent countries).

TI Offers free tools to Open Source developers for DSP use. h.264 and MPEG2/4 are open standards, so you could use the DSP tools to code DSP accelertation into an open source player easily enough. In case you didn't watch the video, TI was, running Linux for their demonstration.

 

[javaJake]

The DSP-compatible codecs project would be one worthy of a donation from the dev fund, would it not?

I'm looking into downloading DVD's onto the Pandora, and I know the DVD format is 720x480, generally, and that DVD's are generally encoded in MPEG-2 format. I hope the Pandora will eventually be able to handle this and other similar formats without over-clocking.

 

[benjiro]

Yup, but that would require full DSP access. Access to proprietary DSP codecs that cost a certain amount of money for each device. So unless Pandora has some way to legally purchase and install those proprietary codecs, or unless the cost of those come with the purchase of the Pandora

Dev Fund? To me, the Dev Fund can also be used to buy things that aid the development or speed of the Pandora. Remember, for TI this is a nice PR project, so they might offer a nice deal price for the codec.

 

[TaG]

I think Pandora sacrifices 1080p capability in order to provide performance in other areas. It's good for 720p though. But I can't check my facts while gp32x is down!

You can still search google and look at the cached pages if you know what to search for.

Here are a couple of links:

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:...2+site:gp32x.de+720p&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=uk

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:...9+site:gp32x.de+720p&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=uk.

I haven't re-read all of them but 720p downscaled is generally thought possible.

On the BeagleBoard they chose the other route - they have HDMI but cannot easily hook up an LCD.

 

[Ryuu]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayFsiQ88wFU[/youtube]

nice now put that into a case and stick a pandora logo onto it

lol i know the board in the pandora is customized but i just posted the beagle board because its so awesome and to know the pandora will be as awesome is why i am learning python to dev on this beauty :wink:

 

[bruce_loco]

Why worry about 1080 lines?
Normal svideo is 576 lines
Unless you could interface HDMI on it, there would be no point.