Video decompression

Apr 06, 2006 3 Replies

Hi all, I need some help about video decompression. I am not sure to hav understood well the various steps. For example, I have a video (type MPEG4) in RAM on a board TMS320C6416 an I wish to display it on a TV. What are the various things to be made Decompression, DAC, sending towards the TV, ... If somebody knows where I can found more information about the steps, an about the formats between the steps (MPEG4, YCbCr, 4:2:0, ITU-656, ...) Thank you in advance Damien


Since you mention TI - there are quite a few app notes and tutorials on TI's website.

Generally speaking it would look like this:

- decode MPEG into a frame of YUV

- send YUV frame to a video DAC

If you're using TI's DSP BIOS a lot of the ugly parts are handled for you.

Andrew

^^^^^ Hopefully you mean 4:2:2 ?

Best Resource would be

Video Demystified (4th Edition) A handbook for the digital engineer

Author Keith Jack ISBN 0-7506-7822-4

Available from many places like Amazon and others

See also

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for related links including to the book!

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Thank you for these elements of answer. In fact, I have already found the app notes on TI's website, but I did no find examples of codes. I do not understand wher I must begin...

Damien

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