[vlc] Re: [ANN] GPE VLC 0.7.1 for iPaq

[Kuniyoshi Murata]

Hi,

Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 10:41:02 +0100 [zone:Paris/Berlin], In msg: <[vlc]
Re: [ANN] GPE VLC 0.7.1 for iPaq>, Mr./Ms. Jean-Paul Saman mentioned:

>> iPaq is PocketPC device I think. Why V4L feature can work?
>> 
> iPAQ also runs Linux Familiar Distribution, which supports v4l.

I understand.
 
>> Anyway, if V4L device is recognized and works with iPaq version, it will
>> work as streaming encoder on PDA. Am I right?
>>  
>> 
> V4L is an API for communicating to devices that support that API. This
> can be a camera, encoder, decoder, etc. V4L itself is no encoder you
> need a HW card that supports hardware encoding for that to work. VLC
> communicates using the V4L interface with such a device.

What I meant was "V4l compatible device"
I configured V4L and MPEG4IP on desktop linux box for live webcast, so I
know what it is. 

>> Which means, iPaq version can play ISMA MPEG4 (MPEG4 Video by FFMPEG and AAC
>> Audio by FAAD). Is that true?
>> 
> In theory yes, but remember an iPAQ is a computing limited device.
> Depending exactly on which version of the iPAQ you have and the bitrate,
> video screen size, audio and video encoding MPEG4 will work acceptable
> or not. In short in practise your milage may vary.

I understand. I had PocketPC PDA and I know CPU processing speed of PDA is
limited.


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