[Ffmpeg-devel] Which video codec for embedded use (iPods etc) ? (original) (raw)

Dave Chapman dave
Sat Feb 11 18:58:25 CET 2006

Hi,

I'm a developer for the Rockbox project (http://www.rockbox.org), which sa you may know is a GPL'd replacement firmware for a growing number of different portable music players (such as those made by Archos, iriver, and more recently some iPods).

I'm looking to investigate the feasibility of video playback on some of these devices. They typically have a 16-bit colour LCD with a 220x176 or smaller resolution.

These devices have no FPU and 32MB RAM. Processors used are a 124MHz Coldfire (m68k-based) or dual 75Mhz arm7tdmi.

I'm looking for advice as to which video codec has the greatest chance of performing well in such an environment. i.e. one which gives a reasonable compression ratio, but is "easy" to decode?

Any advice gratefully received.

Thanks,

Dave.

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