SD speed record

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The master of RLP…Awesome

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Incredible… And that’s on a Cobra. I assume you’re buffering from the SD card as fast as it’s playing and not buffering the entire video first?

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Idd, frames are directly copied from SD to LCD buffer. Each frame does a roundtrip to Netmf now in this example. The video on the SD card contains uncompressed 5:6:5 bmp data, so no conversions are needed.

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Can you share a bit more info or code on what you have in c# and how did you convert a video to raw netmf format?

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This looks impossible! What speed you have and what is the FPS?!

I am really impressed! Each image is 150KB so at 10 frames you need 1.5MB per second!

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@ Gus: Current framerate is 20FPS and each frame is initiated with a call from NETMF, so when you run it completly in RLP, I would expect a framerate of 30FPS.

I have downloaded a MPEG1 sample video from internet, then converted this video to a BMP sequence with virtual dub. Then I used a batch process to convert each bitmap to 320x240 5:6:5 BMP format. Then I have written a small C# console program that merges all BMP files without headers to a single file I then put on the SD card.


int fh;
fr = FatFsDriver.OpenFile("0:\\output.seq", FileAccess.READ, out fh);
if (fr == FileResult.OK)
{
    Debug.Print("File opened");

    int bytesRead = 0;
    int totalBytesRead = 0;
    byte[] buffer = new byte[320*240*2];
    int start = Environment.TickCount;
    do
    {
        fr = FatFsDriver.LoadSingleFrame(fh, buffer, out bytesRead);
        totalBytesRead += bytesRead;
    } while ((bytesRead > 0) && (fr == FileResult.OK));
    int duration = Environment.TickCount - start;
    if (fr == FileResult.OK)
    {
        Debug.Print("Read succeeded with " + totalBytesRead + " bytes in " + duration + "ms");
        float speed = ((float)totalBytesRead / 1048.576f) / (float)duration;
        string s = speed.ToString(); int dotPos = s.IndexOf('.'); if (dotPos > 0) s = s.Substring(0, dotPos + 3);
        Debug.Print(" readspeed = " + s + " MByte/s");
    }
    else Debug.Print("Read failed after " + totalBytesRead + " bytes");

    fr = FatFsDriver.CloseFile(fh);
}
else Debug.Print("Failed to open file, error = " + fr);
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So basically you read speed is over 2MBytes/sec :open_mouth: nice!

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In RLP it’s 4.4MByte/sec to be exact :slight_smile:

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one more question, virtualdub software did convert to 5:6:5? I just downloaded it and I see how to convert to BMP, very easy and now trying to convert to 5:6:5.

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I’ve recorded a save-as bmp 5:6:5 macro in photoshop and then ran it as a batch process on the folder containing the bitmaps.

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Impressive performance

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Hi WouterH,

This looks nice. I thought I’d see what kind of SD Card performance I was getting without RLP (which I do not have on my Argon board) for a comparison. Are you able to compare your results with the standard .NET MF version?

I have Sytech’s 480x272 screen, which means more data to transmit (255Kb) per frame. I downloaded a stream from youtube and converted it to rgb565le (raw) using ffmpeg similar to yourself and got the following:

.NET MF Argon R1 - SD Card Read Speed Test - YouTube

I am transferring 255Kb in 45ms which comes out as a rate of 5.53Mb per second, similar to yourself. I am currently using the built in NETMF FAT library for this, so I expect I could speed it up a bit should I look at doing so later on. I also have about 5% more bandwidth in the SDCard interface to improve upon.

Cheers,
James

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Wow that impressive… work… :slight_smile:

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Thanks Jay Jay - as I say I should be able to get another 5 or 10% out of the SD Card as it is currently running at 20Mhz where as the maximum speed of the microcontroller SD Card interface is 25Mhz.

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I had to lower the clock because SDRAM could not follow up :smiley:

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Hi WouterH,

Are you using DMA to move the data from the SD Card to the RAM? I suppose the limit you are hitting is the 16bit interface to your SDRAM?

James

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I use DMA but the limit is the wait-state of the RAM. It has a wait-state of 3 clockcycles if I remember correct.