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

[From: Daniel Stone]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:53:13PM +0300, ext Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> 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.

Hi,
We don't have any plans to do this for the 770.

Cheers,
Daniel
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