Hello everyone. I was trying to set up a beaglebone as a media center using the hdmi output to plug on my TV. The board itself is running debian wheezy with kernel 3.8.13-bone70. I also need to made the wifi dongle WN723 to work, so I followed the instructions on this video Beaglebone Black - USB WIFI & TP LINK WN725N <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCa_D6SlVhg>. Everything works, using a usb hub I was able to play media stored in an external hard drive and access the beaglebone using vnc.
But no matter how I tried to configure mplayer, any video played at full screen has a large amount of frames dropped. The overall result is very unpleasant. Searching on the web, if I understood correctly, there is a video driver (sgx) which has some hardware acceleration and I expect this to gave me better results. Unfortunately, it does not work with this kernel version. I tried to follow the steps here http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardDebian#Install_Latest_Kernel_Image and this is the results: 1) Upgrade the kernel to version 4.1.13-bone16, ok 2) installed the SGX driver, apparently with no errors 3) Tried to play the some videos, same results... apparently the driver is not being used. Anyway, I tried to get the kernel source and recompile the module for the wifi dongle. being unable to get the sources from the beaglebone repository, I tried to download it from kernel.org. Doing so I was able to compile the driver with no errors, but the module is not recognized and there is no wireless connection. So I ask: 1) Is it really possible to improve the video playing experience on beaglebone black by using this SGX drivers, as I had understood? 2) How can I get the sources for this specific kernel version, so I would be able to compile the module 8188eu.ko? 3) Does someone knows of any SO image with this options already enabled? Lets say, a beaglebone black image focused on media playing, perhaps with xmbc?? 4) Anyone has some experience or thoughts that would like to share? Well... that's all for now... =) Carlos Novaes -- 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.
