Hi Daniel, >> DVD content is MPEG-2 video, which the N800 cpu should be able to >> decode. But DVD video is 720x480 at 30 fps (NTSC) or 720x576 at 25 fps >> (PAL), so reading from your previous message, I fear that the hardware >> is just incapable of playing it... Or isn't it? > > Unfortunately this is definitely not possible. A quick > back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that we're only able to put > about 7fps through at PAL even with the newer firmware. This is a > pure hardware limitation, and not something we can work around in > software. You'd have to reduce to about 400x320 at 25fps, or 500x400 > for roughly 15fps.
Boy, what a disappointment. I mean, really. TI is advertising the chipset used in the N800 as dvd-capable and I had the impression that the hardware was there, "only" the missing video acceleration and dsp drivers were stopping us from watching full-screen 30fps video on the device. I had also thought that a dsp had its own path to the video screen so that it could decode video on its own. I really, really like the N800 and Maemo is as cool as it can get, so congrats on you guys' work so far. But this is sad to hear. Regards, Hanno _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
