[Coco] CoCo Video Player Project

[Mark McDougall]

Mark McDougall wrote:

> I think if you're attempting to play compressed video, you can forget 
> about doing it on a Coco unless you're happy with restricting the frame 
> rate / resolution even further. You may be able to implement something 
> like RLE, but that's pretty much useless for anything other than 
> "cartoon-style" graphics.

FWIW - and I mention this purely as a reference - I've ported a software 
XVID (MPEG4) player on a 100MHz NIOS CPU and it can sustain about 8 fps at 
320x240! By far the biggest bottleneck is the colour-space conversion. I 
think we calculated that if we implemented that in hardware, or transcoded 
to an RGB format, we could sustain full video frame rates.

Regards,

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