linuxdc-dev

[linuxdc-dev]Mplayer

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

With all the traffic on the dcdev list about DivX players I wonder whether 
anyone here has gotten mplayer to play avis (as opposed to mpegs) on their DC.

Seems to me we have the superior "product" if we can do that....

Adrian

[linuxdc-dev]Mplayer

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

I have just noticed, on a trawl around for appropriate rpms for my Red Hat Box 
- that there are RPMs for this app doing the rounds. Does this mean we can 
now package this for the DC?

Adrian

Re: [linuxdc-dev]Mplayer

[Karl T. K. <ka...@pr...>]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Adrian McMenamin wrote:

> I have just noticed, on a trawl around for appropriate rpms for my Red Hat Box 
> - that there are RPMs for this app doing the rounds. Does this mean we can 
> now package this for the DC?

It would be rather worthless as many of the most interesting codecs are
binary-only, and the rest are x86 tuned using assembly.

In general, mplayer is a big, functional pile of nasty code. It does
have some interesting stream-handling code, that does a pretty good job of
parsing bad video/audio streams, but we'd probably be better off just
borrowing that code and putting it into a new, cleaner player.

Perhaps Gstreamer is a good candidate here. I suppose glib-2.0 compiles
nicely ?


Karl T

Re: [linuxdc-dev]Mplayer

[M. R. B. <mr...@0x...>]

* Adrian McMenamin <ad...@mc...> on Wed, Jan 23, 2002:

> With all the traffic on the dcdev list about DivX players I wonder whethe=
r=20
> anyone here has gotten mplayer to play avis (as opposed to mpegs) on thei=
r DC.
>=20

mplayer needs:
* Optimized SH4 IDCT routines and other SH4-specific optimizations
* YUV overlay support
* A speedier pvr2fb framebuffer that achieves 2D peak using DMA and store
  queue blits
* A faster AICA driver
* To rid itself of it's x86-centric design

This is a lot of work.

M. R.

Re: [linuxdc-dev]Mplayer

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

On Wednesday 23 Jan 2002 7:51 pm, M. R. Brown wrote:
> * Adrian McMenamin <ad...@mc...> on Wed, Jan 23, 2002:
> > With all the traffic on the dcdev list about DivX players I wonder
> > whether anyone here has gotten mplayer to play avis (as opposed to mpegs)
> > on their DC.
>
> mplayer needs:
> * Optimized SH4 IDCT routines and other SH4-specific optimizations
> * YUV overlay support
> * A speedier pvr2fb framebuffer that achieves 2D peak using DMA and store
>   queue blits
> * A faster AICA driver
> * To rid itself of it's x86-centric design
>
> This is a lot of work.
>
> M. R.

Should not let best be the enemy of better here. Most of the traffic on dcdev 
is about how they can get no output. I agree about the need for 
optimisations, but they shouldn't bar us from crowing a bit.

Can't we encourage the wider SH4 developer community to do at least some of 
this?

Adrian