Re: Help with YV12-YUV420 converter

2008-05-15 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
Hi Simon, I did a simple DSP yuv-rgb converter a year (or two?) ago. I have not looked at your code, so forgive me if I say something obvious. The one thing that bit me was the fact that the DSP/toolchain did not handle access to data objects larger than 64k, due to 16 bit restrictions on the

Re: Help with YV12-YUV420 converter

2008-05-15 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
Simon Pickering wrote: Hi Buck, I have not looked at your code, so forgive me if I say something obvious. The one thing that bit me was the fact that the DSP/toolchain did not handle access to data objects larger than 64k, due to 16 bit restrictions on the DSP. My understanding is that

Re: DSP vs. ARM endianness and struct packing

2007-09-14 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I did some experimentation a while back with DSP - ARM communication via mmap'ed memory, in my case I was working on using the DSP for rgb to yuv conversion. Another big gotcha to look out for is 64k boundaries. The DSP (at least in the 770) just

Re: [maemo-developers] Nokia's Linux-powered N800 Internet Tabletsneaks out early

2007-01-09 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that we're going to get one word out of a @nokia.com address for the time being...but they'd better not stop releasing FW updates and developing for the 770. Maemo isn't open enough for the community to maintain the

Re: [maemo-developers] Xvideo support for Nokia 770?

2007-01-09 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Siarhei Siamashka wrote: On Tuesday 09 January 2007 20:59, Charles 'Buck' Krasic wrote: Any chance the Xvideo support in the Bora 3.0 will turn up in a 770 OS? I asked the same question on #maemo irc channel and daniels explained that video

Re: [maemo-developers] Nokia's Linux-powered N800 Internet Tablet sneaks out early

2007-01-08 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Great!3.0 sounds better all the time. - -- Buck Daniel Stone wrote: The X server now provides the standard Xv (X Video) extension, so just use that instead, and things get a whole lot less complicated. It's not as wildly quick as it should

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: Getting scratchbox CPU transparency working on the n770

2006-12-05 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My understanding is that it is not legal to redistribute the binary-only Nokia stuff.I base this on my read of the click-through license on http://www.maemo.org/downloads/d2.php, it quite appears clear to me that copying and redistribution are not

Re: [maemo-developers] Suggestions for scirocco?

2006-11-29 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tran Van Hoang wrote: Hi all, In an effort trying to make scirocco officially support scratchbox apophis 1.x, we're also trying to make scirocco better if possible. So if you would like to have any thing else supported, please say it soon

Re: [maemo-developers] Suggestions for scirocco?

2006-11-29 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frantisek Dufka wrote: Charles 'Buck' Krasic wrote: Hi, I think it would be nice if in addition to a rootfs, there is a kernel that includes some of the extras that are useful for developers. The main example I am thinking of is NFS client

Re: [maemo-developers] Unresolved issues (Week 46)

2006-11-23 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No, my dsp work was actually video related.I did reuse Siarhei Siamashka's mplayer code to decode/output mp3 directly, but that obviously doesn't help with speex. I'd suggest that the most practical approach for now would be to have an

Re: [maemo-developers] Unresolved issues (Week 46)

2006-11-22 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralph Giles wrote: If you want something free, I'd suggest using our speex codec, which is technically comparable, completely open, and has no known patent issues. We don't have an omap dsp implementation, but it has been ported to the various

Re: [maemo-developers] Getting scratchbox CPU transparency working on the n770

2006-11-19 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
Charles 'Buck' Krasic wrote: I'm a CPU transparency user too. I think I hit the same issue back when 2.0 was originally released.See the following post for reference: http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2006-June/004242.html Sounds to me like the issue remains the same

Re: [maemo-developers] Getting scratchbox CPU transparency working on the n770

2006-11-17 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm a CPU transparency user too. I think I hit the same issue back when 2.0 was originally released.See the following post for reference: http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2006-June/004242.html Sounds to me like the issue

[maemo-developers] Missing maemo downloads (e.g. developer root fs)?

2006-11-17 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The following files appear to be empty: http://maemo.org///downloads/d1.php http://maemo.org///downloads/d2.php http://maemo.org///downloads/d2.php Are Nokians aware of this?I want to try the 2.1 developer fs, but it doesn't seem available

[maemo-developers] Re: Answer discovered @ http://qstream.org/viewcvs/trunk/qvid/src/video_out/maemo_dsp_yuv/

2006-09-01 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I spent a lot of time searching for freely available tools and information about the dsp. Maybe I can help you avoid duplicating my effort. I've put together the various bits I collected here: http://qstream.org/770/dsp/ Mind the

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: Answer discovered [ CORRECTION ]

2006-09-01 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doh, I hit send too fast. The correct link is: http://qstream.org/~krasic/770/dsp/ - -- Buck Charles 'Buck' Krasic wrote: Hi, I spent a lot of time searching for freely available tools and information about the dsp. Maybe I can help you

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: Answer discovered @ http://qstream.org/viewcvs/trunk/qvid/src/video_out/maemo_dsp_yuv/

2006-09-01 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I didn't know how easy using the LCD hardware support for YUV was when I started working on this. Later on, when I did figure that out (when a Nokian finally posted something to the list), I revised my DSP code to do scaling only (YUV-YUV). Even

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: Answer discovered @ http://qstream.org/viewcvs/trunk/qvid/src/video_out/maemo_dsp_yuv/

2006-09-01 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The codec is a homegrown variant of MPEG-4 I call SPEG. Basically SPEG adds fine granularity SNR scalability to MPEG-4. SPEG is part of a larger overall project on quality-adaptive video streaming. The SPEG implementation is derived from from the

Re: [maemo-developers] libXv and xvimagesink

2006-08-28 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Corentin, There has been some discussion of this issue on this mailing list. You may want to search the archives. To summarize the situation briefly: There is no Xv implementation on the 770. The Xserver includes the generic Xv layer

[maemo-developers] Re: YUV formats, Re: Building xserver from source [was Bluetooth Mice]

2006-08-22 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Frantisk, Thank you for sharing that information! (Jussi too). Using 420 may bring some additional improvement over 422. I hope to integrate that into my code later today. The YUV framebuffer support has been a major progress for my player.

Re: [maemo-developers] problem with dspmp3sink (was: problem with gstreamer and dsppcm)

2006-08-21 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
Siarhei, Just in case you have not done it already, enabling swap in your device can help a lot to prevent out-of-memory errors.Maybe this will help with mplayer/gstreamer stability. I personally suspect a design flaw in the current Linux VM subsystem. I've observed that if an application

[maemo-developers] Building xserver from source [was Bluetooth Mice]

2006-08-17 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm very interested in the fact that you were able to rebuild the xserver and run it. I found the build instructions in your http://thelemming.org.uk/maemo/btmice/maemo_mouse_readme.txt file. Thanks! Can anyone comment on whether running such an

Re: [maemo-developers] Alsa on IT2006 beta

2006-06-22 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Look for my earlier post to the list. Summary: the 770 kernel is linux-2.6.16-omap1 which does have generic ALSA, but not specific support for the 770. There was a patch posted to the linux-omap-open-source list which was supposed to enable the

Re: [maemo-developers] WLAN reciever and battery.

2006-06-15 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
I've read several research papers that claim that WLAN power consumption makes the biggest jump from completely off to online, and that the incremental power consumption between passive online (mainly receiving) and active online (transmitting) is not nearly as large. This is why TDMA

[maemo-developers] [PATCH] board-nokia-770.c: Add missing alsa platform driver code

2006-06-15 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I checked the mailing list archive, and I do not see any answer regarding Mika's alsa patch for alsa and the 770. Since Nokia released the 2.0 beta for 770, I hoped Nokia would have ALSA support enabled, but it seems not. So I went ahead and rebuilt

Re: [maemo-developers] CPU transparency: no NFS support in 2.6.15-omap1?

2006-06-10 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
yet. - -- Buck Adrian Neumaier wrote: Am Samstag, 10. Juni 2006 02:12 schrieb Charles 'Buck' Krasic: I'm trying to follow the steps to get CPU transparency with the 2.0 developer image, but sbrsh reports NFS mount failures with 'No such device' errors. I believe this means the 770 kernel

Re: [maemo-developers] CPU transparency: no NFS support in 2.6.15-omap1?

2006-06-10 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To follow up my own post, I realized that I needed to load sunrpc and lockd modules first. I'm still not there yet, when I try to mount I get a Protocol not supported error that I am still trying to figure out. Gotta love NFS when it works, but

Re: [maemo-developers] CPU transparency: no NFS support in 2.6.15-omap1? (resolved)

2006-06-10 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
manually using insmod. 3 - with the NFS modules loaded, the rest of the CPU transparency howto worked. I was able to build the helloworld example and verified that sbrsh is working correctly. - -- Buck Charles 'Buck' Krasic wrote: To follow up my own post, I realized that I needed to load

[maemo-developers] CPU transparency: no NFS support in 2.6.15-omap1?

2006-06-09 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to follow the steps to get CPU transparency with the 2.0 developer image, but sbrsh reports NFS mount failures with 'No such device' errors. I believe this means the 770 kernel doesn't have NFS client support?Has anyone else tried it