It's also probably worth mentioning that Adobe Flash currently supports the Crystal HD API, I think since 10.1, but only on Windows. If Gnash could pull ahead in terms of hardware acceleration support on Linux, I think that would have significant value.
Best, Jake On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Jacob Beard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the reply. > > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Rob Savoye <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 12:17:09PM +0100, Jacob Beard wrote: >> >>> video content for the Broadcom Crystal HD chipset. You're starting to >>> see this chip show up in a lot of netbooks. Broadcom has released open >>> source drivers, an application library, and a gstreamer plugin, most >>> of which seem to have made it into Ubuntu Maverick. >> >> Interesting... I hadn't heard of that one. If it's in Maverick, I can try >> it. > > I'm still just figuring all of this out myself (having only recently > bought the hardware), but it seems the firmware is in > linux-firmware-nonfree > [http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/all/linux-firmware-nonfree/filelist], > and the kernel module is crystalhd.ko in the generic kernel > [http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/i386/linux-image-2.6.35-22-generic/filelist]. > I'm not sure whether the application library and gstreamer plugin are > in apt, but the LGPL sources are available on the broadcom site, > explicitly mention Ubuntu in the README, and were no trouble to build > and install on Ubuntu Lucid: > http://www.broadcom.com/support/crystal_hd/ > > I'm still testing it to see how well it actually works. > >> >>> I know Gnash now supports VAAPI, and it also seems as though someone >>> is working on a backend for the crystal API for VAAPI, which but it >>> seems not be very mature: >>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi >> >> You mean vaapi or the crystal API isn't mature ? >> > I mean the Crystal HD backend of the VAAPI isn't mature. See: > http://gitorious.org/crystalhd-video > It seems quite young. > >>> It would therefore be interesting if Gnash could make use of the >>> crystal API in some other way, perhaps via Gstreamer and the crystal >>> plugin. >> >> It probably can. Right now I'm slowly (between other tasks) refactoring >> the rendering API in Gnash to better support things like HW accelerated >> video. >> While the current VAAPI support works, I think how it works can be improved. >> I'll look at the docs, but if this is a gstreamer plugin (OMAP is the same), >> there may not be anything Gnash has to do special to utilize this. > > That's great to hear. > >> >> I'd have to find some hardware with this chipset to really know if it works. > > I'd be happy to test any builds. > > Thanks, > > Jake > _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
