User:Bluddy

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Bluddy
Name Yotam Barnoy
Team Member since 2009-09-22
Working on PSP platform
PSP Optimization
Personal webpage/BLOG -
Email -

Worked On

  • PSP
    • Suspend/resume support
    • Plugin support (ELF loader)
    • Console-oriented virtual keyboard
    • D-pad directional support
    • Eliminating the evil undead flickering bug (it was a tough one)
    • Refactoring, redesign and cleanup

Working On

  • PSP Optimization
    • Rendering speedup: done and makes vsync super accurate (better than PC)
    • MP3 using Media Engine: mostly done
      • Turn into thread for better efficiency (allowing music more processing time without slowdown)
    • Video Speedup
      • Actually harder than expected: it's hard to find codecs that do the kind of work that the VFPU will improve
      • Check other codecs for possible speedups using VFPU/alignment
    • Tests: done
      • how much reading is done by MP3 rendering/movie playback? How much will we need to cache? done. Reads chunks of 15-25KB preceded by small 4KB reads. Whole MP3 loads are a problem (200KB+).
      • How often do we read from the memory stick when we're going fast (movies)? Can we use a thread to do async reading? Is there enough time between reads?
    • Improve memcpy: alignment, rotation
      • Memcpy is done. Not sure how to improve it with VFPU.
      • Memmove can also be improved -- needs reverse memcpy.
    • No More SDL: done.
    • Threads for audio: consumer and producer
  • Aspect Ratio
    • Option to keep AR for display. Should be easy.
  • Timidity
      • A lot of work. May improve speed over midi and sound better.

To Do

  • PSP
    • MP3 playback with Media Engine
    • Optimize speed in general
    • Optimize video playback speed
    • Use libTimidity for music
  • Generic virtual keyboard: take my keyboard and make it available to all. Involves switching from bitmaps to vectors.
  • Generic ELF loader
  • Speed up seeks in huge MP3/Ogg files using index.
    • Load the index, and if updated save every 5 mins or so?