Just found out that Marvell's digital video format converter received the EDN Innnovation Award for Multimedia ICs! It's amazing to know that the product made by our group has won this award. It's a wonderful sense of accomplishment. Well, in reality, it's won by another team within our business unit, but we're located on the same floor, so...
posted by Ching-Han Tsai @ 3:57 PM
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I didn't even know that On2 acquired Hantro! Now they're announcing this new multi-format decoder. See Company News.
posted by Ching-Han Tsai @ 8:55 AM
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This is really cool: small, lightweight tablet PC just released by Fujitsu that's actually lighter than the MacBook Air! See Fujitsu Computer Systems - LifeBook P1620 Notebook.
posted by Ching-Han Tsai @ 11:56 AM
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Broadcom samples real-time HD video/audio transcoder with their BCM7043 SOC. It also uses 65nm technology, and can support H.264, MPEG2, and MPEG4 SP. Looks like our target exactly.
posted by Ching-Han Tsai @ 10:48 PM
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Saw this OpenMax thing on MP4 mailing list. Seems useful enough, but no idea what the licensing agreement is like. Says it's royalty free. How about source codes?
posted by Ching-Han Tsai @ 2:22 PM
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CommsDesign has an old article on Minerva Networks, Nortel teaming up to deliver API for real-time IPTV services. The API is based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), which sounds familiar enough. Probably worth looking into a bit further.
posted by Ching-Han Tsai @ 2:07 PM
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This is what I imagined we could bundle with our multimedia processor: Locura™ Personal Personal Media Server is a server sitting on your PC serving multimedia contents to your PSP for playback. Seems like the video needs to be in some kind of PSP format, though. At only $30 bucks, the price is right, too.
posted by Ching-Han Tsai @ 1:40 PM
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