[maemo-developers] Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

[From: Felipe Contreras]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Siarhei Siamashka
<siarhei.siamashka at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 01 November 2008, Ryan Abel wrote:
>> On Nov 1, 2008, at 5:47 AM, Simon Pickering wrote:
>> > Something with more mileage, though still not really a killer app,
>> > would be working on optimisation of the backend libs that all three
>> > media players use (therefore any media player would benefit). But this
>> > will have to wait until we see what the hardware is capable of really.
>>
>> Considering the hardware is already doing 720p with only NEON
>> optimizations, well. . . .
>
> There are always ways to make a powerful hardware run as fast as a snail ;)
> Especially when excessively complex frameworks and layers are used, chances
> of having something implemented inefficiently in between get a bit higher.

Yes, but as long as you avoid memory copies having 3 or 4 layers is a
small price to pay if the the gist of the code is properly optimized.
H.264 for example can consume a lot of CPU power so every optimization
(on the processing code) counts.

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Felipe Contreras