[M4IF Technotes] MPEG-4 hardware decoder card

[Rob Koenen]

Thanks Cristoph,
> I just read at tomshardware about the REALmagic Xcard
> using EM8475 chip. It claims to decode Advanced Simple 
> Profile except for Quarterpel and GMC.
> 
> http://www.sigmadesigns.com/products/xcard.htm

It's great news to hear more and more MPEG-4 products becoming
available. Also note that you can download SigmaDesign's 
Advanced Simple Codec here:
http://www.sigmadesigns.com/products/MPEG4_video_encoder.htm
As for your license question: the click-through license states 
that the user is  responsible for any license fees. I am not a 
lawyer, so I won't make any statements as to how safe this is.
(but I did download and will install shortly :-)
Rob
ps: 	A word of caution about calling a decoder that does not do 
 	1/4 pel and	GMC (yet) "Advanced Simple". At WEMP-4
	it was clear that there are many decoders that do AS
	without something - the "something" being GMC, 1/4 pel 
	and/or B frames. These decoders do not yet comply with
	the standard and are therefore not yet interoperable at
	the Advanced Simple Profile.
	They *are* compliant with Simple Profile, though, and might 
	also be called Simple + GMC and/or B frames and/or 1/4 pel.
> 
> Do you anything know about compatability of this chip/card 
> and driver support? And what about license issues?
> 
> Christoph
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