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

[Christoph Derndorfer]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Tom Parker <tom at carrott.org> wrote:

> 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 <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.
>

Tom,

thanks a lot for your reply and all the information.

Please do keep me/us in the loop about the findings you and your friend
make as I'm sure many other people here are also interested in this work.
:-)

Cheers,
Christoph

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