[Jayayess1190]

Here’s some close up pictures of Broadcom’s Crystal HD Enhanced Media Accelerator Mini PCI-e card that will come with future netbooks to enable HD Video, including HD flash playback.

You’ll be able to smoothly view content heavy Flash content (include HD Videos on YouTube, CBS, BBC iPlayer, Pandora.tv etc) and high definition HD video, including both 720p and 1080p (H.264, MPEG-2 and VC-1). Even with 100% CPU usage, there will be no frame drops or stuttering.

The Crystal HD Mini PCI-e will first be making it into the HP Mini 110 XP edition. The Acer Aspire One 571 was also reported to have this module, along with a VMedia drive and HD screen, this nothing has been mentioned about this netbook in a official capacity.

This chip was also seen in an ASUS Eee PC 1000H demonstrating 1080P HD video over at the CyberLink headquarters.

Make sure your next netbook has this!

[via Portable Monkey]

[somms]

Broadcom's Crystal HD Solution Enables High Quality, High Definition Media Playback for the Super-Portable HP Mini 110 - Technology News - redOrbit

Yet no way of using this on the Mini 9/10/10v series due to the lack of additional Mini-PCIe slot...

[Jayayess1190]

Can anybody tell me if this is the same thing as the BCM70015 coming soon with Intel Pinetrail netbooks?

[somms]

Originally Posted by Jayayess1190

Can anybody tell me if this is the same thing as the BCM70015 coming soon with Intel Pinetrail netbooks?

The BCM70010/BCM70012 media PC chipset supports the next generation H.264 and VC-1 video compression algorithms to enable PCs to playback high definition streaming media content. The chipset is a single-stream HD H.264/VC-1/WMV/MPEG-2 video decoder solution capable of full HD real-time decoding supporting Windows XP, Windows(R) 7 and the Linux(R) OS environments. The high performance and low power consumption of this chipset solution reduces CPU utilization and enables support for ultra portable mobile platform designs. It includes full support for the MPEG-2 standard so that compatibility with existing media (DVD or ATSC) can be maintained. The MPC chipset supports any compliant resolution from QVGA up to 1920 x 1088.

FWIW: From link I posted above, this appears to be BCM70010/BCM70012 whereas BCM70015 would be a diff chipset...

[Jayayess1190]

So, which is better? Maybe the 70015 because it is being built specifically for netbooks?

[T-Keith]

mini-PCI-e, is there any way this could go in a mini9? I read elsewhere that Adobe was working on a version of Flash that would allow video decoding to be done by a Broadcom or NVidia card, instead of by the CPU. The HP XP edition talked about in this article makes me think this will be a Windows only feature. Maybe the gnash or swfdec guys should work on something like this for Linux.

[somms]

Originally Posted by T-Keith

mini-PCI-e, is there any way this could go in a mini9? I read elsewhere that Adobe was working on a version of Flash that would allow video decoding to be done by a Broadcom or NVidia card, instead of by the CPU. The HP XP edition talked about in this article makes me think this will be a Windows only feature. Maybe the gnash or swfdec guys should work on something like this for Linux.

Not w/o sacrificing your WLAN Mini-PCIe slot if you don't mind not having internal wireless unless your Mini happened to come equipped with WWAN connector installed or you solder it in yourself aftermarket.

BTW: There is no guarantee that the Broadcom HD Mini-PCIe follows the standard pinout and may turn out to use non-standard connection similar to how the Mini-PCIe SSDs won't be recognized if installed into either the WLAN or WWAN slots or vice versa (WLAN Mini-PCIe doesn't work installed into SSD slot)....

[Jayayess1190]

Originally Posted by T-Keith

The HP XP edition talked about in this article makes me think this will be a Windows only feature. Maybe the gnash or swfdec guys should work on something like this for Linux.

The 70015 will work in both Windows and Linux.

Link

[T-Keith]

Originally Posted by Jayayess1190

The 70015 will work in both Windows and Linux.

Link

Just because the chip works with linux doesn't mean that it will with Flash. That has to be written into Flash itself.

[reflex]

Originally Posted by Jayayess1190

The 70015 will work in both Windows and Linux.

Link

I understand that the article unequivocally states that'll work with Linux, but I really doubt it.