[vlc] DSP acceleration support ?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le dimanche 13 décembre 2009 16:58:59 Arioch, vous avez écrit :
> >> Probably that support would be nice to have in main stream of
> >> VLC/ffdshow ?
> >
> > VLC bears no direct relation to ffdshow, so I cannot comment on that.
> 
> Ain't ffdshow the main lib in VLC ?

No. ffdshow uses libavcodec. VLC uses, among other decoding libraries, 
libavcodec.

> Yes, there is some mistik "use native libraries" switch in options, but no
> one knows what it is.

That is some Windows specifics.

> >> ARM cpu's might be an interesting ooption for
> >> PDA's/smartphiones/smartbooks, but for video they need DSP/GPGPU aid.
> >
> > Of course, supporting DSP improves performance a lot. Even Cortex-A8,
> > which is by far the most powerful ARM core in the market
> 
> For the record, there is A9, that seems to be double-core A8, hence it is
> yet faster :-)

I wrote "in the market" and I meant it. I am yet to find an A9 core in any 
electronic retail shops.

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