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Open-source APIs up multimedia performance

Posted: 16 Feb 2007  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe

Keywords: video design  DSP in digital video application  digital video design  open-source API  GStreamer Rishi Bhattacharya 

[Summary of tips] DSPs offer outstanding multimedia performance. Typically, they require just 40 percent to 50 percent as many cycles as a GPP core to run a codec. They also offer far greater flexibility and reconfigurability than ASICs. Yet until now, programmers have had to learn proprietary languages to take advantage of the benefits of DSPs ......
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