Jan Bottorff wrote:
> 
> >I would love to have the codec written in Squeak, though. It's more fun
> >to
> >debug and program that way. (I don't even know how to program C) Then
> >run the code
> >trough one of those machine-code-converter-classes out there :-)
> 
> Having written commercial high performance video codec's, I can tell you it
> generally takes hand optimized assembler to get the kind of performance you
> see in commercial products. Languages like C are mostly clueless about
> properly utilizing the short vector instructions on modern processors. For
> the M-JPEG codec we did, the decompression performance between optimized C
> and more optimized Intel MMX assembler (and using special OS interfaces for
> video) was about 5:1. The MMX code alone was worth about 3:1. The better OS
> interface included using an overlay surface in video memory and writing YUV
> color space pixels.

This code is java.
http://www.sureplayer.org/
It's not fullscreen not 25 or 30 fps but it works with streaming video.
Seems like I have some fun hacking ahead of me:-)

Karl