Re: Making the most of MVI

[Ron Farrer <rbf farrer net>]

Charles L. Chandler (cchandle@x2356.resnet.cornell.edu) wrote:

> Several people have mentioned the Motion Video Instructions (MVI) that have 
> been
> added to recent versions of Alpha uPs, usually asking if anyone has employed 
> them
> in some sort of beneficial way, like for video or audio codecs.  However, no 
> one ever
> seems to respond saying that they are actually being used.  So, I searched 
> around
> and found a fairly comprehensive list of resources just waiting to be used.  
> Since the
> document was by no means particularly easy to find, I put it on my web page 
> and updated
> some of the obsolete links; you can reach it at: http://www.people.cornell.edu/
> pages/clc31/pc164/MVI-full.html
> 
> I would like to see an effort to use these instructions, especially since they 
> are so
> highly touted by marketing campaigns for the 21164PC and 21264.  This 
> definitely
> seems like the kind of thing that we all could benefit from: maybe by setting 
> up some sort
> of group of people interested in developing GPL software to take advantage of 
> MVI.
> 
> Your thoughts on this issue are, of course, welcome!

I'm curious as to how many people are working on software/code which
uses MVI? Anyone out there? 



Regards,

Ron
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