On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Tom Parker <t...@carrott.org> wrote: > On 02/04/12 10:34, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > >> >> To make a long story short: Is there a way to watch MP4 videos on an >> XO-1.75 at this point in time? :-) >> > > The Marvel SOC has hardware accelerated decoding and encoding to the point > it can play high definition video. See http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/** > 11686 <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11686> for enabling this hardware. > The Raspberry PI and the cubox both have similar hardware. Look to those > projects for hints about where to get the software codecs compiled for ARM. > My feeling is the processor will struggle decoding even moderate resolution > h.264 without the hardware acceleration. > > A friend is looking at getting the hardware acceleration stuff working on > the XO, it is apparently complicated because the kernel for which Marvel > released their drivers is quite different to that in 11.3.1. I'll catch up > with him tomorrow and see what progress he has made on the 12.1.0 kernel. >
Tom, thanks a lot for your reply and all the information. Please do keep me/us in the loop about the findings you and your friend make as I'm sure many other people here are also interested in this work. :-) Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] e-mail: christ...@derndorfer.eu
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