Texas Instruments provides DSP algorithms for the OMAP 3 platform used in a number of devices like beagleboard and N900.

The gst-dsp project aims to provide GStreamer elements to take advantage of those algorithms. The list includes video/image decoders and encoders.

Unlike other similar projects there are no dependencies (no openmax, no libdspbridge).

The features include:

• video decoding (MPEG-4, H.263, H.264)
• video encoding (MPEG-4, H.263)
• image encoding (JPEG)
• zero-copy

The advantages over other solutions are:

• simpler code (5k vs 50k)
• better performance (4x)