Hello Andreas,

I'll take a look to the Gotham-A10 :-)
As always thanks a lot for your support and precious answers!

Simon

Il giorno giovedì 21 agosto 2014 13:41:03 UTC+2, Andreas Baierl ha scritto:
>
>  Hi,
>
> Am 21.08.2014 12:21, schrieb Simo Xefil:
>  
>
> Hello to all,
>
>  I've followed your instructions posted on http://linux-sunxi.org/XBMC to 
> install XBMC on a board A20 based. It's a BananaPI device: 
> http://www.lemaker.org/.
>
>  I'm noticing a strange behavior. Using an external player, mplayer, in 
> XBMC the video flickers.
>
> Using external players is neither part of this XBMC implementation nor 
> described in the wiki. So it's supposed to be a mess. Surely there will be 
> problems with XBMC<->Display<->X11..... No priorities, threads, clean 
> free-ups ....
>
>  (native player doesn't support HW acceleration) 
>
> But it should kind of. That's why the wiki and XBMCA10 was made. 
>
> I'm not posting this on XBMC forum because I think it could be a driver 
> issue. 
>
> It IS, because xbmca10 is POC and not ready for production usage. It needs 
> a LOT of improvement.
>
> I'm not proof with the FEX settings, framebuffer vs x11 or sunxi libraries 
> settings.
> I've installed sunxi-vdpau, libump and then XBMC. using mplayer from the 
> command line, all works well. Using it from within XBMC not.
>
>  The result is shown here:
>
>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZVKLcD8Ec4
>  
>  Even on exit from XBMC sometimes it hangs and sometimes i need to move 
> the mouse to clean the desktop and see the desktop again.
>
>  I've tested this on a Lubuntu distro and on a Fedora 20 distro as well, 
> fresh installed on my ARMhf BananaPi board.
>
>  Any suggestion? I've no idea where to investigate... :(
>
> Remember, xbmca10 is a buggy messed up POC thing which wasn't improved for 
> months (or years?) 
> The only thing you can do is to do some investigations in the xbmca10 
> source code and try to fix it yourself. Or wait until someone wants to do 
> that. But this would probably not happen with the closed source binaries.
> Probably you can take a look at 
> https://github.com/warped-rudi/xbmc/tree/Gotham-A10
> This is the xbmc fork wich is used in openbricks. I never tried it myself, 
> but it may be worth a try as it seems not to be too outdated and used in a 
> recent distribution.
>
> Thank's a lot!
>
>  Simon
>
> Regards
> Andreas
>
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