FPGAs, GNU Radio and alternatives

A couple of day ago, I stumbled on GNU Radio. I was looking around electrokit online shop searching for components and I saw a Cyclone III FPGA Starter Kit for 1599 SEK (2000 SEK including taxes) and I thought : “uhmm, I could put one of this to some use” I was thinking that maybe there was a way to implement ZibBee radio using one of these FPGAs. So I started searching google about FPGAs and radio and I found GNU Radio. ...

March 26, 2009

Sony PSP mpeg-4, avc and the video folder

I realized that the PSP refuses to play all my .MP4 files from the root VIDEO folder. If I move them to MP_ROOT/100ANV01 it will work but if I put them in the VIDEO folder PSP says that they are not compatible data. After investigating a little bit, it seems that it only refuses to play AVC encoded files all other are fine. Well, if fact only MPEG-4 320x240 files can be played from the video folder whereas AVC 480x272 is fine if I put them in MP_ROOT/100ANV01. Another interesting fact is that if I encode the files using Media Manager for PSP 2 instead of 3GP converter then I can play AVC files from the VIDEO folder.

March 10, 2007