[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] libxv status?

[From: Jussi.Laako at nokia.com]

>Daniel Stone wrote:
>> It means that the video hardware does not support RGB565 (everything 
>> on the device, basically) and YUV together.  You can't have part of 
>> the screen being RGB and part being YUV; the problem is a couple of 
>> layers below the X server.

Yes it does and yes you can, as I wrote the support and it works pretty well... ;)

>Oh, thanks. Now I understand. From the product brief 
>http://www.erd.epson.com/vdc/html/contents/S1D13742.htm and 
>from kernel sources I wrongly guessed that the conversion is 
>done on the fly (per each update) when moving data from main 
>memory to videoram. But as it is simple DMA it looks like 

You understood the kernel sources correctly. Just set the format flag in ioctl() for each update specifying the format for the updated window area. This functionality is independent from the source of the data (be it ARM or C55).


	- Jussi Laako