Theora Hardware

The Elphel 333 can encode a Theora stream.

Decoder

Currently there is a hardware decoder implementation being developed. The Google "Summer Of Code 2006" (author's university projects page) began to produce an FPGA decoder implementation in VHDL and now there is another "Summer Of Code 2007" project (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: Theora Hardware Decoding
• Video Encoding: Basic Principles

Architecture and current state of development

• Current Theora Hardware VHDL source
• LEON resouces
• LEON architecture

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

Developers

• Felipe Portavales Goldstein (portavales at gmail) - Website
• Leonardo Piga (leonardo.piga at gmail)
• Andre Costa

See also

• Theora Hardware: List of hardware-players supporting Ogg Theora
• TheoraSoftwarePlayers: List of media players that can play Ogg Theora
• TheoraSoftwareEncoders: List of software that can encode to Ogg Theora
• TheoraDecoders: List of decoder implementations
• TheoraEncoders: List of encoder implementations
• List of Theora videos: Get some files to see what the codec's like
• Games that use Theora: List of known games that use Theora
• TheoraTestsuite: Different samples to test player compliance
• VorbisHardware