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Animats ◴[] No.43748045[source]
JPEG 2000 for each frame? I wonder what they use for decompression. JPEG 2000 decompressors are really slow. Most couldn't keep up with frame rate without GPU support.
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userbinator ◴[] No.43748484[source]
Dedicated hardware, not even regular GPUs. JPEG2000 decompression has a rather complex entropy decoding part which is not easily parallisable.
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fulafel ◴[] No.43749538[source]
Only on the intraframe level - Frames are independent so overall it's "embarrassingly parallel".
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crazygringo ◴[] No.43753601{3}[source]
There's no point to decoding in parallel if you're watching in sequence.
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dsr_ ◴[] No.43753942{4}[source]
If your hardware can only manage 4 frames per second but you need 48, then decoding with 12 sets of hardware in parallel achieves your goal.
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1. crazygringo ◴[] No.43755040{5}[source]
Derp, quite right. Never mind, thanks!