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Codec Engine 1.10 Release

This Codec Engine Release is targetted to the DaVinci platforms, enabling users to instantiate and utilize both local and remote codecs. In addition to the heterogenous DM644x devices, it supports single processor environments as well; specifically Joule devices, ARM9 devices running Linux and x86 devices running Linux.

This release note is divided into the following sections: General Info, Upgrade Info, What's New, Device Support, Known Issues, Validation Info, Documentation.


General Information

The Codec Engine is a software platform for algorithm execution that satisfies the following, high-level goals:

The Codec Engine consists of the following packages:

Additionally, this release of the Codec Engine supports the xDM 1.0 beta interfaces included in xDAIS 5.10. This support is provided in the following packages:


Upgrade Information

The Codec Engine packages are available in the "packages/" subdirectory of the product. If you have a previous release of the Codec Engine product, you can install this release next to it, and modify your application and/or server builds to use this newer release.

If you're using the DVEVM, this can be done by setting the CE_INSTALL_DIR variable in the Rules.make file at the top of the DVEVM distribution directory.

Compatibility Breaks!

Some of the components Codec Engine builds upon have evolved and broken compatibility with previous releases. Specifically, DSP/BIOS and some components within the XDC tools. As a result, the customer upgrading from CE 1.02 to CE 1.10 may experience some of the following errors if they aren't using the correct versions of CE dependent components:


What's New

The following significant changes have been made since 1.00.

1.10 (This Release)

1.02

1.01


Device Support

The following configurations are supported:


Known Issues

xDM 1.0 beta Support

x86 Linux support


Validation

This release was built and validated against using the following components:


Documentation

The following documentation is available in this release:


Examples

Codec Engine examples and instructions are located in the "examples" subdirectory.


Last updated: November 1, 2006