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    9 months ago

    I used it in a few microcontroller projects, let me get away with the cheaper 8 bit microcontroller with 64K of flash. The streaming decoding is real nice, because it can be read from flash and sent of to a display, without ever keeping it in ram. (4K!)

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        9 months ago

        I don’t know if writing a custom image compresson program and streaming graphics rendering code with worth saving a few bucks on parts.

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          9 months ago

          It depends on volume. When you build 100 parts not really. But when you build millions it becomes worth it.

          In automotive they fight over every cent.

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        9 months ago

        I don’t think you could fit video on that microcontroller, even with the best compression. But some low memory and compute video compression for embedded devices would be nice.