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On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 2:25 PM, mike.valk@gmail.com mike.valk@gmail.com wrote:
2017-12-29 6:48 GMT+01:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net:
On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 9:56 PM, Bill Kontos vkontogpls@gmail.com wrote:
If this goes well it will go down in history as one of those famous conversations in the early days of tech we read about.
yehyeh!
I think so too. And India is very keen on becoming the next China/Taiwan/Etc. Which I think is a good thing.
hell yes. i was very surprised to find, here, that the prices in Shenzhen for commodity equipment are hardly any different from USA prices [EU different as the support of the socialist system aka "welfare state" is extremely burdensome and has to be paid for by vastly higher prices].
and the cost of living is... becoming higher than london. the hostel i stayed at was unusual, $5 / day to live in a 10-bed room and it was *full of chinese people*.
2D: Skip. AMD and Vivante already do so, NVIDIA will too IIRC. The 2D accelerators were mostly for windowing systems now replaced by composting systems, including MS Windows, and other means, Androids SurfaceFlinger, etc. The missing functions are now done on 3D or CPU.
yyeah which i'm not keen on (critically relying on 3D) - that means you *have* to have OpenGL. plus if using ORSOC Graphics Accelerator it would actually be necessary to rip those features *out* of it.
ORSOC GPU is smart, it has scalable vector font support, z-buffer support, 3D polygon display and much more. really cool.
VPU: That would require also licenses from the format owners. That's going to be difficult. And the new, open, video formats are not ready. Daala, Thor, NETVC, AV1.
this is actually a really good case for using the primitives e.g. here *not* hard-coded engines: https://opencores.org/project,video_systems
Something generic to offload parts of the decoding/encoding would be the best bet I guess. Avoids licenses, single format isolation. IIRC most codecs share techniques. I might be talking jibberisch, or it might be to impractical.
no if you can do e.g. CABAC decode, or DCT, or Huffman encode.decode, you have the building blocks and things get really quick.... *without* running into patents.
3D. Wasn't there a PoC from some students in the open macro's? Perhaps those guys can be hired to refine their work?
can you point me towards it with some clues?
l.