[firmware] MJPEG decoding support

I'm working with a webcam that captures MJPEG video, now I want to analyze it with OpenCV but it uses a lot of CPU since it seems that the CPU decodes MJPEG.

Can MJPEG support get enabled in the Pi's firmware? ( Maybe Theora/VPX too )

If the GPU can decode MJPEG, I could spend more CPU power on analyzing frames

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http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/592

Dom adds: As an aside, the GPU can hardware decode H264, MPEG1/2/4, VC1, AVS, MJPG at 1080p30. It can software (but still vector accelerated) decode VP6, VP7, VP8, RV, Theora, WMV9 at DVD resolutions. We are restricted due to licensing what we can support. We should be able to support VP8, MJPG and Theora, as I believe they are license free.

I wasn't able to find anything about mjpg requiring a license.

A MJPEG stream is just a number of normal individual JPEG images send after each other.
Tried using the normal JPEG Openmax routines?

What is the status of MJPEG support in the video decoder? The quote about the hardware supporting MJPEG is encouraging, but I've tried using the decoder for MJPEG, and I'm finding the hello_video example errors when MJPEG is used.

Don't forget encoding. MJPEG encoding would be nice too.

Basically, encoding is as interesting as decoding, when you want to apply changes to a video stream for example.