[Sugar-devel] MP4 playback on XO-1.75?

[Tom Parker]

On 02/04/12 10:34, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>
> To make a long story short: Is there a way to watch MP4 videos on an 
> XO-1.75 at this point in time? :-)

The Marvel SOC has hardware accelerated decoding and encoding to the 
point it can play high definition video. See 
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11686 for enabling this hardware. The 
Raspberry PI and the cubox both have similar hardware. Look to those 
projects for hints about where to get the software codecs compiled for 
ARM. My feeling is the processor will struggle decoding even moderate 
resolution h.264 without the hardware acceleration.

A friend is looking at getting the hardware acceleration stuff working 
on the XO, it is apparently complicated because the kernel for which 
Marvel released their drivers is quite different to that in 11.3.1. I'll 
catch up with him tomorrow and see what progress he has made on the 
12.1.0 kernel.