[x264-devel] FPGAs and x264

[Nathan Stratton]

On Sat, 4 Jul 2009, David Smith wrote:

> HI,
>
> I am currently working on a project to offload x264 functions to an FPGA.  I 
> have read several papers recently that describe the offloading of 
> x264_me_search_ref.   However, that is a large function to replicate in 
> hardware and well beyond the scope of my project.

Does this make sense anymore? I would think that todays CPUs are to the 
point where offloading just does not make sense anymore. We built our own 
MCU in software because the cost performance numbers fell so fast on CPUs 
it no longer made sense for us to build our own hardware.


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