[maemo-users] [maemo-users] Note to Nokia Maemo team... we need (ok, would really like) this

[From: Simon Pickering]

> > > Not sure about that "easily" in your post, I bet people are actually 
> > > sweating over every fraction of FPS improvement ;)
> >
> > to me easily would be a direct play option rather than a conversion 
> > method like vidconvert -- which I love, but takes some planning, 
> > especially these days as quite a few people seem to be hitting it 
> > pretty hard.
> 
> The solution to doing real-time video format conversion 
> probably lies in the 3D hardware that doesn't drivers/doc for it yet.

Not 3D harware (more MPEG4 decoding) but I understand Nokia have worked on IVA
support. Is this work ongoing/likely to be continued?

And on to 3D: I see that a PowerVR kernel driver (binary blob) is available for
at least one platform using the 2.6.x kernel (PepperPad2:
http://airlied.livejournal.com/39506.html), is Nokia able to pressure/request
that Imagination Technologies produce a kernel driver & OpenGLES libs for the
N800's harware/kernel combo and are Nokia planning to develop/integrate this
(please!)? If Nokia don't plan to do so, could we, the developer community, have
the up-to-date binaries so we can do it ourselves?

Thanks,


Simon