On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 9:23 AM Koen Kooi <[email protected]> wrote:
> I’ve managed to get kodi 16rc3 to build (and work!) on armv7a and x86-64. > The recipes can be found here: > https://github.com/koenkooi/meta-dominion/tree/master/recipes-multimedia > > It needs work before I can submit it properly to meta-multimedia. The > problems I’ve spotted so far: > > 1) No libva in oe-core, it should move from meta-intel to oe-core. > libva-intel-driver is fine where it is. > 2) No vdpau in oe-core, it should move from meta-dominion to oe-core > 3) It runs java in do_configure. Since meta-java only works one day per > year we’ll just have to install it on the host. > 4) OpenGLES is broken in kodi, a fork has fixes. > 5) Wayland is broken in kodi, a fork has fixes. > 6) No PACKAGECONFIGs yet for weird media accelerations like openmax, imx6, > etc. > > and the big one for me: > > 7) no hts add-ons available. pvr.hts needs ${S} from kodi, but uses cmake > instead of autotools. I might just partially copy/paste cmake*bbclass into > kodi_git.bb to make this work. Needs more thought and less cmake. > > So if you have an x86-64 box with intel graphics, great, everything works > as expected. On ARM you need working openGL, so that limits you to > snapdragon/freedreno. That works[1], but no accelerated decode. > If you have non-intel graphics in x86, have a look at what meta-dominion > and meta-amd (thanks Kergoth!) do, I have it working on ATI and Nvidia > cards locally. > To make sure credit goes where it's due, I didn't have anything to do with meta-amd, that was other folks at Mentor, IIRC primarily Sean Hudson and Drew Moseley. They've done good work on it :) > Anyway, if people want to help out with getting the recipes upstreamed > into the right layers: awesome. The biggest hurdle named ffmpeg was removed > (well, added into OE, but you get what I mean) 16 days ago, so it should be > relatively plain sailing :) > Nice, looks like you've done some great work on this :) -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
