[Arm-netbook] Any ARM SoC has Open-Source access to hardware video decoder ?

[Vladimir Pantelic]

lkcl luke wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Henrik Nordström
> <henrik at henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
>> Freeing a proprietary piece of software (or hardware) which has been
>> proprietary for many years is inherently complex process. And efficient
>> video decoding is a lot about software. And it's a key technology for
>> Allwinner. And it's a company where marketing do not understand why
>> arch/arm/mach-XXXX/ needs to be provided in source form.
>
>   yeahhhh... i know.  *grumble*.  any other ideas?

ignore all these HW video cores since its unlikely that
any of them will ever be fully opened...

Instead decode video on the CPU, freedom comes with the
price of battery life :)