Comments on: I love my Chumby! http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/03/09/chumby-fun/ Flash Platform Geek Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:31:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Peter http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/03/09/chumby-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-10800 Peter Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:31:00 +0000 http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/03/09/chumby-fun/#comment-10800 There's been some discussion about it on the forum quite a while back -- I've got a hunch although theoretically possible it'll probably not make it in :\ [quote]...The Freescale MX21 ARM9 (the processor used in the current chumby prototypes) has hardware-level encoding and decoding of MPEG-4. At the moment, we don't expose that functionality to the Flash layer because we haven't absolutely committed to this particular processor. The processor on its own is not powerful enough to decode video without a hardware assist..[/quote] There’s been some discussion about it on the forum quite a while back — I’ve got a hunch although theoretically possible it’ll probably not make it in :\

[quote]…The Freescale MX21 ARM9 (the processor used in the current chumby prototypes) has hardware-level encoding and decoding of MPEG-4. At the moment, we don’t expose that functionality to the Flash layer because we haven’t absolutely committed to this particular processor.

The processor on its own is not powerful enough to decode video without a hardware assist..[/quote]

]]> By: mattie http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/03/09/chumby-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-10799 mattie Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:23:12 +0000 http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/03/09/chumby-fun/#comment-10799 mmm.., a most hackable device, sounds like fun :) I'm curious about its hardware.. would you be able to stream video to it? mmm.., a most hackable device, sounds like fun :)
I’m curious about its hardware.. would you be able to stream video to it?

]]> By: Marco Casario http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/03/09/chumby-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-10787 Marco Casario Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:33:39 +0000 http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/03/09/chumby-fun/#comment-10787 We're now on board Peter. Yesterday my Chumby arrived so I can't wait to have the time to play with it ! Cheers We’re now on board Peter. Yesterday my Chumby arrived so I can’t wait to have the time to play with it !

Cheers

]]> By: Chad http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/03/09/chumby-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-10785 Chad Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:57:05 +0000 http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/03/09/chumby-fun/#comment-10785 So jealous! Looks like fun. So jealous! Looks like fun.

]]> By: Alessandro http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/03/09/chumby-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-10784 Alessandro Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:19:14 +0000 http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/03/09/chumby-fun/#comment-10784 Ciao, great to see you got in the Chumby mood!! It's a really cool device especially for developers that wants to hack the all platform. I wanted to invite you to join the Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group. Check out www.flashmobilegroup.org Alessandro Ciao,

great to see you got in the Chumby mood!!
It’s a really cool device especially for developers that wants to hack the all platform.
I wanted to invite you to join the Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group.
Check out http://www.flashmobilegroup.org

Alessandro

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