On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Derrik Pates wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > Is it possible to get the signal from the BT878 tuner into the Radeon
> > > for hardware mpeg conversion? Maybe a video4linux-loopback-type-thing.
> >
> > What do you mean by "hardware mpeg conversion" ?
>
> Many All-in-Wonder (and I think some of the VIVO cards) included software
> to do real-time MPEG-1 encoding. AFAIK none of them actually included
> support in the chip for hardware MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 encoding. Unless I'm
> mistaken, of course (which I may be), and that's what I think he is
> referring to (like having the BT878 DMA into an offscreen region of video
> RAM, then have a hardware MPEG encoder encode from the offscreen video
> mem, and pull the encoded MPEG frames down from the card...). Of course,
> if I'm correct, and the MPEG encoding is done in software anyway, his
> point is moot.
Well, AFAIK there is a project that allows to do software mpeg
encoding. As for any hardware encoding features of AIW/Radeons - we do not
have any docs for them.
Vladimir Dergachev
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