Good video boards?

[Yan Seiner]

On Wed, October 15, 2008 1:23 pm, JustinLove wrote:
> We've been trying and failing to get a project going that really shouldn't
> be
> this hard.  The first try wasn't fast enough.  We looked at some EPIA-SN
> boards, but both of them died suddenly and at the moment we still don't
> have an
> explanation.  The driver picture was somewhat doubtful at the time as
> well.  I
> tried a BeagleBoard based on the demo videos, only to discover that the
> graphics drivers being demoed were based on proprietary, un-released code,
> and
> so doesn't do me any good.
>
> In case we have to start over again, I realized I've kind of put the cart
> before the horse.  Rather than get a board and see if works, it might be
> nice
> to start with OE/Angstrom, which we've been using so far, and see what
> hardware
> it supports well.
>
> We want to run dual monitors (two communicating boards if necessary), one
> with
> full-screen streaming video (mpeg, etc) and the other with video on about
> 1/3
> of the screen and a free rotating image covering most of the rest of the
> screen.  Our sample art was 720x480, and we've played at times with
> 640x480 and
> 800x600.  The application also needs some GPIO; we could use an external
> USB
> controller in a pinch.

Talk with Technologic <http://www.embeddedarm.com>.  Depending on the
framerate you should be able to use something like a TS7300 or a TS7800
with the video board piggybacked to it.

I don't work for them; I've used their product

--Yan

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