[Bug 553717] New: Review Request: libcrystalhd - Broadcom Crystal HD device interface library

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Summary: Review Request: libcrystalhd - Broadcom Crystal HD device interface library

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553717

           Summary: Review Request: libcrystalhd - Broadcom Crystal HD
                    device interface library
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: jarod at redhat.com
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: notting at redhat.com, fedora-package-review at redhat.com
   Estimated Hours: 0.0
    Classification: Fedora
    Target Release: ---


Spec URL:
http://jwilson.fedorapeople.org/packaging/libcrystalhd/libcrystalhd.spec
SRPM URL:
http://jwilson.fedorapeople.org/packaging/libcrystalhd/libcrystalhd-0.9.25-1.fc12.src.rpm
Description:

The libcrystalhd library provides userspace access to Broadcom Crystal HD
video decoder devices. The device supports hardware decoding of MPEG-2,
h.264 and VC1 video codecs, up to 1080p at 40fps.

The crystalhd kernel driver was accepted to the linux staging tree just a few
days ago, and this library is the sole way one is supposed to interface with
the decoder from userspace. It does also require a firmware image, which
doesn't yet have a redistributable license applied to it, but Broadcom is
working on making it so. For the moment, I'm using a modified tarball that
strips out the firmware, but in the future, intend to produce a firmware
sub-package straight off of this package.

While one might be slightly scared at first blush with the mention of mpeg2,
h.264 and vc1 decoding, its done entirely in hardware, which has its own
paid-for codec licenses, so this gives us a viable way to decode video on
Fedora without any patent issues. Applications simply dma an encoded bitstream
into the device, and it spits out raw decoded frames of video for you to do
with as you please (i.e., display them on your screen).

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