Hi, thanks for contacting the linux-sunxi community.

In the subject line says Android, and this requires to explain, that.
The linux-sunxi community, is basically just working with gnu/linux
type OS, and Android is not much cared about.
But as both (gnu/linux and android) have the same linux kernel in
common, the work that linux-sunxi is doing to improve and upstream can
be certainly be used by android (in the future).

Also was used the word "cedarx", which must be explained that is the
name of the proprietary-binary-blobs library for the sunxi's video
engine hardware. The cedarx-library has a long history of license
ambiguity issues, which Allwinner has some difficulties in understanding
the importance of resolving this so called "license-issues".

The linux-sunxi community tried to get Allwinner collaboration, but
after of a huge amount of "trouble", the best that could be achieved can
be seen in this page http://linux-sunxi.org/CedarX

For this reason, the use of the cedarx-library is not recommended.

The good news, is that this sunxi video engine hardware, has been
already reverse-engineered with successful results, as in this page
tries to explain. http://linux-sunxi.org/Cedrus

This means, that is not required to be dependents of this troublesome
cedarx-library.

But.
The linux-sunxi community is currently only focused in mainline and
upstream work, and there is still plenty to be done.

The A13 soc happens to be the most advanced with the mainline kernel
support, but the Android requirement makes this a complicated matter.



On Tue, 24 May 2016 06:14:12 -0700 (PDT) Mehmet Kurnaz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> We will use A13 for a project that should play MPEG2 TS stream(HTTP
> stream over ethernet) and full hd videos. In the old project we used
> VLC libraries for another platform and want to use same applications. 

If you read the Cedrus wiki page (indicated above), you will find that
currently only exists a vdpau backend implementation for 3.4 kernel. 
And Android + vdpau not been impossible, will certainly be an aberration
that probable should never be tried.

But, you speak about only VLC libraries (in android), this is different
and possible. Simply one could use the fact that Cedrus is a project
100% open-source and just write the support into VLC (for android).

If this interest you, we can forward discuss about how this could be
done.


> Can anybody quote a price and time for this project?

As said above, the people in the linux-sunxi community don't have much
interest in Android and i myself am included.

But if someone wishes to take this opportunity and the route described
above (using the work of the cedrus project and not the
cedarx-license-issues-library), we(the cedrus people) would be happy to
collaborate to make this possible.
Just use this maillist or join us at #cedrus on freenode to chat.


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Manuel Braga

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