On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Carlos Novaes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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?
Which kernel? uname -r > 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? The BeagleBone Black is not designed to be a media player.. It doesn't have any hardware codec's to do ANY video acceleration. Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- 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.
