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Saturday 17 April 2010

Accelerating Theora On The N900

Last year Mozilla funded development of Leonora, David Schleef's port of the Theora decoder to run on the TI C64x+ DSP that's found in the Nokia N900, Palm Pre, Motorola Droid and other mobile devices. Since then Matthew Gregan's spent some time working on integrating it into a complete player with actual video playback, sound, and A/V synchronization. The bottom line is that using Leonora and certain graphics acceleration tricks we can play full-screen video (800x480) with sound at 26 frames per second with the CPU 80% idle. This shows that free codecs can work well on mobile devices. Read Matthew's blog post for the juicy details.



Comments

jmdesp
It just confirms that comment from some a google developer what I reported here earlier :
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/04/interesting-times-for-video-on-web.html#c8044969807598232563
Theora can already playback in real time on an iPhone 3GS at native screen resolution, 25 fps [...] Hardware decode support is a red herring.
I'm getting a Droid soon, I'd love to play with that code ...