Some blurbs about tweaking mplayer’s codecs

The (non-) problem The truth is that there never was a problem. What really happened was that I got things confused between a few versions of mplayer/mencoder, and only the latests (of those I have, 1.0rc1-3.2.2) does the job. Bus since I wrote down some things I might want to return to some day, here’s [...]

Posted Under: Linux,Software
This post was written by eli on December 11, 2009 Comments (2)

Xilinx’ MiG memory controller’s init process reverse engineered

Introduction I’m using Xilinx’ MiG 1.7.3 for running DDR2 memories on a Virtex-4 FPGA. It didn’t take me long to realize that the controller never finishes initialization. The problem is that I had no idea of why, and as far as I know, no documentation to refer to in my attempts to understand where the [...]

Posted Under: FPGA,Software
This post was written by eli on December 7, 2009 Comments (0)