Hi Luke, So, if I've understood this post correctly, video playback on vlc would perhaps be within the bounds of what the A20 hardware / software could do?
Russell Just a Fourier transform away from creating a computer game... On 09/08/2016, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]> wrote: > .... ain't gonna work with the current code-base of either xulrunner > (firefox and ice* types) or webkit (chrome, midori, qupzilla). darn. > > the reason for webkit is: although gstreamer supports vdpau and vaapi, > and even can be activated to do hardware-accelerated decode, webkit > (at least as best i can find) the gtk+ variant then targets *opengl* > as the output rendering engine, rather than asks VAAPI / VDPAU to > handle it directly on the webkit engine's behalf. > > what that means is: with software-rendering OpenGL of the decoded > pixels it's simply too much for the A20 to handle. > > amazingly i have actually seen icecat do about 2 or 3 fps video > decoding in software, i really don't know how it managed, and i > haven't really been able to replicate it. > > anyway if people are expecting videos to be played in web browsers, > it's gonna take some work. for now it's possible to download them > (youtube-dl or other methods) and then use a video player. > > l. > > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
