As an aside, as I am not exactly a "fan" of the rPI. I think in this case the rPI is more suitable for this task. It's pretty much the one thing the rPI does better than a BBB. *OR* you could wait for the beagelbone X-15.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 1:15 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_framebuffer > > *There is now a library DirectFB <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectFB> > which provides a framework for hardware acceleration of the Linux > framebuffer.* > > So this would imply that the answer to #3 is yes, and the answer to #4 is > no hardware acceleration.. I also believe the answer to #1 is yes( both I > think - 1080p being 16 bit as I recall ), and no idea about question #2. > > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Vijairaj R <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> I am trying to setup BBB to play html5 videos in chromium and output >> through HDMI to a TV... >> >> The status so far is as follows (Thanks to the images from rcn-ee.net): >> * Booting Ubuntu 14.10 through a uSD. >> * Installed the pvr kernel drviers. >> * Installed the SGX userspace libraries and demos. >> * The TI SGX SDK Demo 'OGLES2ChameleonMan' is running successfully on the >> framebuffer. >> * Xorg is running with 'fbdev' driver >> * chromium is started with a url from the command line and running >> modeless on X >> * The url has a html5 H.264 video and plays albeit too slow and at an >> unacceptable frame rate. >> >> I *believe* that both video decoding and playback are currently done by >> the CPU rather than using the GPU and the NEON unit. I am trying to get the >> GPU and NEON to the task and have a few questions: >> 1) Is it even possible to run a 1080p/720p videos on the beagle bone? >> 2) Is there a neon optimized ffmpeg codec for the chromium browser? (My >> use case require the videos to run in the browser rather than in a >> dedicated media player) >> 3) Xorg starts only with 'fbdev' driver and not with the 'modesetting' >> driver... Does this have an impact on the video playback? >> 4) Also running eglinfo, gles2test1 from X don't work... Does this mean >> that X is not yet accelerated and does that have impact on chromium's >> performance? >> >> I did do some research in the past one week but I am still very new to >> the BBB and any help is greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
