On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Steinar H. Gunderson < sgunderson at bigfoot.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 06:44:24PM +0100, Vincent PINON wrote: > > I think supporting lower end machines is still something to take into > > account : on recent gadgets (Atom, ARM Chromebook) I still would like to > > edit videos with my preferred sw! (up to who cares) > > FWIW: All recent Atoms I've seen come with hardware capable of running > Movit. > (I regularly run the unit tests on my Atom-based HTPC at home to check that > things work with nVidia, for instance.) > > The ARM Chromebooks come with Mali T-604, which do not support desktop > OpenGL, but support GLES 3.0, which has enough features. GLES 3.0 support > is > something I am actively working to get into Movit (it is mainly dependent > on > a bit of glue code, and my test hardware for it arriving), but I don't know > offhand how this works with Qt. > > In general, it's really hard to buy a computer these days without a pretty > advanced GPU. :-) > > True, but do we end up with a hassle of driver bugs and interoperability problems? These are not directly related to Movit, but I came across these two only this morning: https://plus.google.com/107555540696571114069/posts/5PhmKwz1NAr Aaron Seigo: Testing a bit of new hardware and it crashed on me while doing some (very basic) graphics tasks. I thought to myself, "I wonder if this is using a PowerVR SGX GPU?" Looked it up: yep. Even under Android the driver for this GPU is a POS. https://plus.google.com/102032883547463415401/posts/GF1pzw3rwQv A G+ thread today about a QML Quick-defined menu Shotcut not rendering correctly since switching to ATI card with fglrx driver. -- +-DRD-+ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kdenlive/attachments/20140317/23182589/attachment.html>
