Episode #10 - Episode #10 - Host John Dixon welcomes video experts JB Fowler and Brian Jeff from Texas Instruments. The trio discuss the dramatic changes underway in the video market and what has changed over the past 5 years.

• Video market changes in the past 5 years
• The movement from Standard to high definition
• Programmability issues as well as the ins and out of choosing codecs

Episode #8 - Host John Dixon and Guest Scott Specker from TI Technical Training, perform a DVEVM technical demonstration to show how easy it now is to create on-screen-displays (OSDs) by leveraging TI DaVinci video accelerators and TI’s eXpressDSP™ digital media algorithm standard.

• Technical Overview of the DVEVM
• Overview of sample code and compression and decompression algorithms
• Explanation of TI DaVinci Video Processing Sub-System (VPSS)
• Creation of OSD example using GIMP (24 Bit RGB)
• Demo of how MonteVista™ Linux is used to mount a hard drive on the ARM in DaVinci to save OSD graphic example
• Run the OSD example by coping the graphic example into the video buffer using FPDEV

EPISODE #7 - Greg Mar of Texas Instruments SoC Marketing and Joe Fabbre of Green Hills Software Business Development Team discuss a myriad of topics of interest to Linux and embedded developers designing on the TMS320DM644x digital media processors based on DaVinci™ technology.

• Green Hills Software’s unique ability to deliver advanced development and debug for Linux, DSP/BIOS™ and INTEGRITY on the DaVinci processrs
• New capabilities available in Green Hills Software’s MULTI® IDE tuned for DaVinci processors low level and application developers
• Green Hills Software’s ability to have complete SoC OS aware debugging for the Linux kernel, BIOS executive and Green Hills RTOS’s
• Heterogeneous integrated development tools (compilers, debugger and probe) for both the DSP and ARM cores on the TMS320DM644x processors and why this is critical for software developers