{"id":2375,"date":"2010-04-11T21:05:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T04:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2010-04-11T21:05:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T04:05:18","slug":"google-funding-vp3-on-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/google-funding-vp3-on-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Funding VP3 On ARM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some news is making the rounds that Google is funding ARM improvements for the Theora video decoder<\/a>. It gives the free software faithful renewed hope. However, reading this news makes me wonder: Doesn’t FFmpeg<\/a> already have ARM optimizations for Theora?<\/em> In fact, it does, as indicated by the existence of the file libavcodec\/arm\/vp3dsp_neon.S. This has optimized IDCT transform\/get\/put and loop filter functions for NEON instruction sets. I know there are several different types of SIMD for ARM chips and I don’t know if NEON is the most common variety.<\/p>\n

The most pressing reason for funding this effort is, of course, license purity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some news is making the rounds that Google is funding ARM improvements for the Theora video decoder. It gives the free software faithful renewed hope. However, reading this news makes me wonder: Doesn’t FFmpeg already have ARM optimizations for Theora? In fact, it does, as indicated by the existence of the file libavcodec\/arm\/vp3dsp_neon.S. This has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multimedia-presswatch","category-vp3theora"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t