On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > An interesting article, but NO mention of h.264, which is being used by > YouTube and Apple. Then again, it's only software... > > If you can do Flash you can do Silerlight and h.264. via software decode. Two differences here: 1. Silverlight can use the GPU to offload video decode / scaling 2. Flash uses nearest neighbor to resize video. It is a CPU pig. I still don't understand what the big deal is - many vendors have been deploying Flash on STBs in the past (on the DOM or flash, not on the chipset). At least you can upgrade the version on the flash/DOM... Cheers Kon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.