The Broadcom "Crystal HD" video decoding chip family sounds useful.
There is a PCIe-Mini Card available for $69 (said to be $20-25 on ebay). Supposedly a PCIe-x1 card is coming. Decodes mpeg2, H.264, etc. 1080p TDP of ~2 watts Drivers for OS-X, Linux and virus-server. So drivers for BSD should be available soon. Firmware is appariently binary-only, grumble. http://www.broadcom.com/products/Consumer-Electronics/Netbook-and-Nettop-Solutions/BCM70012 http://www.broadcom.com/products/Consumer-Electronics/Netbook-and-Nettop-Solutions/BCM70015 http://www.broadcom.com/support/crystal_hd/ http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/2009/11/16/the-little-pcie-card-that-could/ http://www.logicsupply.com/products/bcm970012 http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3701 http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Broadcom-BCM70015/ http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21226 _______________________________________________ Open-hardware-ethervideo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-hardware-ethervideo
