Theora Hardware

2010-09-03T18:13:40Z

CaptainObvious: /* Consumer products */ Cowon says NO products of their support Theora.

This is a list of hardware of all categories, from chipsets to ready-to-use products, that support Ogg [[Theora]].

Hardware support status for Ogg Theora is a new thing, but it seems it's sometimes included even if not advertised. If you can't find a suitable player come back next week, or ask your vendor if they could add support.

If you know of any hardware or projects that are not yet mentioned here, please add them to the list.

== Consumer products ==
These players support Ogg Theora either out of the box or after a firmware upgrade.

* [http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/cowon/d2/ COWON D2]. Supports playback of ''Ogg Theora'' video, out of the box.
* [http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/cowon/o2/ COWON O2]. Supports playback of ''Ogg Theora'' video, out of the box. Updated design of the COWON D2 model.
According to Cowon America ( 2010-Sep-02 ), NO Cowon product supports Theora:
"Our players do not support Theora video codec. Its just not a common video codec that you see around in portable media players."

* KiSS DP-1500. Not advertising, but reportedly supports playback of Ogg Theora. Probably [http://www-uk.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C1&childpagename=UK%2FLayout&cid=1129319260635&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper other KiSS products], too?

== Non-consumer products ==

=== Encoder ===
The [http://www.xilinx.com/publications/xcellonline/xcell_53/xc_video53.htm Elphel 333] can encode a Theora stream. More information on this project can be found on the project leader's [http://blogs.elphel.com/category/andrey/ Elphel Development Blog].

=== Decoder ===
Currently there is a hardware decoder implementation being developed.
The Google [[Summer Of Code]] 2006 ([http://www.students.ic.unicamp.br/~ra023772/projects.html author's university projects page]) began to produce an FPGA decoder implementation in VHDL and now there is another "Summer Of Code 2007" project ([http://code.google.com/soc/xiph/appinfo.html?csaid=4235040C184DBD68 description]) to work on it together with another independent developer.

Here are two presentations that the author of the SOC 2006 proposal presented in his University:
* The first idea of implementation is shown on this presentation: [http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/theora-fpga/doc/hard_theora.pdf Theora Hardware Decoding]
* [http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/theora-fpga/doc/video_enc_basic.pdf Video Encoding: Basic Principles]
* [http://code.google.com/soc/2006/xiph/appinfo.html?csaid=5F9265EEC6FA0611 Original 2006 GSOC project proposal]

==== Architecture and current state of development ====
* [http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/theora-fpga/ Current Theora Hardware VHDL source]
* [http://www.gaisler.com/leonmain.html LEON resouces]
* [http://www.students.ic.unicamp.br/~ra031198/leon3.JPG LEON architecture]
* [http://people.xiph.org/~j/bzr/theora-fpga/doc/leon3_integration/ Complete description of the LEON3 integration]
* [http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/theora-fpga/doc/leon3_integration/ Documentation and resources about the LEON3 integration]

http://www.students.ic.unicamp.br/~ra023772/images/theora_integration_with_LEON.png

=== Developers ===
* Felipe Portavales Goldstein (portavales at gmail) - [http://www.students.ic.unicamp.br/~ra023772/ Website]
* Leonardo de Paula Rosa Piga (leonardo.piga at gmail) - [http://www.students.ic.unicamp.br/~ra033956/ Website]
* Andre Costa

== See also ==
{{Theora}}
* [[Vorbis Hardware]]

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