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

[From: Siarhei Siamashka]

Hello All,

When trying to compile mplayer, I have noticed that there is libxv
packaged in maemo sdk and also it can also be installed using apt-get on
the real device. It is useless at least for mplayer though:
   It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
   Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read
   DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
   See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers.
   Try -vo x11

http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2405

Actually mplayer works surprisingly fast and has performance not much
inferior to default video player on Nokia 770 that is using DSP. And
that all is even without hardware colorspace conversion support!

So is it possible to have an accelerated version of libxv on Nokia 770
that would support colorspace conversion and scaling (no matter whether
using video controller capabilities or relay this task to DSP)? So that
a more universal and well supported ARM core could deal only with video
stream decoding.

Having a more capable video player with *.ogm, *.mkv formats support,
subtitles, wider variety of supported codec and other nice features
would be nice to have. ARM core may have higher power consumption, but
it seems to be fast enough for decoding video. Some people may want to
trade battery life for better video formats support and quality.

Also it is interesting to know about the future plans of Nokia team.
What can we expect to see improved in the near future (maybe after some
nice summer vacations you all deserved ;))? Also what help can the
community provide?