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There is definitely a lag between the first software solutions popping up and the first hardware solutions being available. But there are lots of off the shelf
by robert_foss 10y ago
There is definitely a lag between the first software solutions popping up and the first hardware solutions being available.
But there are lots of off the shelf product like the ARM Mali Video IP that you can just buy and slap onto your product.
This is what many SOC vendors do.
These codec engine IP products have their entire business model built around the two facts that:
1) New codecs will be released
2) New codecs will be a lot more computationally expensive. For example: h265 offers up to 50% bandwidth savings compared to h264 but requires about 3x CPU cycles for decoding.
During encoding the issue is a lot worse.
Full disclosure: I worked in the ARM Video Codec group.