[MinnowBoard] [MinnowBoard Max] Video Encode/Decode

[Don Wilde]

There's a good article on anandtech.com that explains more about the
Intel QuickSync video enhancements in the BYT family. It's in a
product review for a multimedia NAS but there's quite a bit of good
detail on BYT.

On 6/24/14, Christopher Price <cprice at mmv.mobi> wrote:
> Bay Trail processors use Intel Gen7 graphics primarily, but hold over the
> VXD so that all Bay Trail chips can decode HD video even under moderate CPU
> load.
>
> This is especially important on lower end Bay Trail chips where
> multitasking may strain the Gen7 GPU such that it can't decode heavily
> compressed video on its own. On higher end Bay Trail chips it is less
> necessary in my opinion - but may help when combining HD video with certain
> OpenGL scenarios.
>
> There are also power benefits (tablets) but I don't have hard numbers
> there.
>
> AFAIK there is no open source driver for VXD 392. Though I'm sure
> Imagination will be happy to hear your feedback ;)
>
> Christopher Price
> ConsoleOS.com
> On Jun 23, 2014 11:36 PM, "Jérémy Hervé" <jeremy.herve at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In Intel Atom E3800 Product Family Datasheet, ref. 538136, p. 291, is
>> mentionned VXD 592.
>> Googling on this term raise a PowerVR IP-Core.
>>
>> What this thing used for, in real-life ? (the 538136 explains that it
>> decode
>> VP8, the Imgtec http://www.imgtec.com/News/detail.asp?ID=597 page talks
>> about lot of other decoding abilities, but where is it used ?)
>>
>> It appears on a Chromium-OS forum, talking about
>> drivers/staging/vxd392/vxd_drv.c (absent from Linux source tree)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jérémy Hervé,
>> Nantes, France
>>
>>
>>
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