The original PlayStation's main SoC (which is incidentally about 30 years old at this point) included a trimmed down JPEG decoder [1] meant to be used for video

The original PlayStation's main SoC (which is incidentally about 30 years old at this point) included a trimmed down JPEG decoder [1] meant to be used for video playback. It still relied on the CPU to handle Huffman decompression [2], but it allowed that otherwise anemic 33 MHz MIPS core to push 320x240 video at 30fps. [1] https://psx-spx.consoledev.net/macroblockdecodermdec/ https://psx-spx.consoledev.net/macroblockdecodermdec/ [2] https://github.com/Lameguy64/PSn00bSDK/blob/master/examples/mdec/strvideo/main.c#L11-L27 https://github.com/Lameguy64/PSn00bSDK/blob/master/examples/...