Need a VERY low intensive video codec

[trend]

I am building an embedded system to play videos.. I want hidef 1080 to display on a 40inch + screen.

I am looking at either a 1.3gighrtz embedded system or 800mhrtz. LARGE price diff (well for me)..

So, I want to see if I can squeeze into the 800mhrtz (using xp pro)

What compression would be the best? video size isn't number one importance.

Ideas?

 

[aka1nas]

You will need hardware acceleration to play video of that resolution with lower-end processors. You could try a newer low-end Nvidia or ATI that does purevideo or the ATI equivalent.

 

[trend]

that is the thing :/ I will not have room for any PCI equipment

 

[imported_Truenofan]

besides re-encoding things to a smaller resolution, and that would look worse on a large screen....um.....i dont see that happening....or its going to be a royal pain. why not build a cheap htpc instead....

 

[TheRyuu]

Originally posted by: Truenofan
besides re-encoding things to a smaller resolution, and that would look worse on a large screen....um.....i dont see that happening....or its going to be a royal pain. why not build a cheap htpc instead....

Yea, besides that if you ever want to use ffdshow/Purevideo IQ enhancing junk you'll never get away with that slow sh!t.

You might want to look into building a cheap htpc.

I cheap Intel/AMD processer (AMD price cuts...) would do the job just fine.

 

[gsellis]

Hmmm.... You can dictate what format is played on it? As codecs go, WMV/VC-1 is pretty light on the hardware as is HD Divx. You are building this? MS charges 25 cents a unit for the codec if you are mfgr one. But I would surely think that you are not asking such a question here.

Me, I think you are asking too much to do 1080i/p and limited to that hardware without building a purpose built system (custom mobo/processor/video). You will gain a bit using the embedded toolkit, but not even having PCI (ISA!?!) will mean that you may not have enough bus bandwidth for all you need to do (read for device, decode, send to video). And, none of the older devices will help with hardware decode for full HD.

BTW, 1.6GHz is the baseline for Real-time digital video from analog conversion. 800MHz may even have issues doing a full-screen display of DV by CPU alone (assuming a 1080 display).