Re: [Sugar-devel] MP4 playback on XO-1.75?
On 04/04/12 09:38, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: thanks a lot for your reply and all the information. I tried compiling ffmpeg on 12.1.0 os6 but it seems gcc or my hardware is buggy because gcc segfaults during the compilation. I used the source rpm from rpmfusion. I'll be posting about this some more on olpc devel. I can also report that Firefox 10 on os6 has a webm codec but it doesn't seem to work on youtube. I haven't looked at why. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] MP4 playback on XO-1.75?
On 02/04/12 10:34, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: To make a long story short: Is there a way to watch MP4 videos on an XO-1.75 at this point in time? :-) The Marvel SOC has hardware accelerated decoding and encoding to the point it can play high definition video. See http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11686 for enabling this hardware. The Raspberry PI and the cubox both have similar hardware. Look to those projects for hints about where to get the software codecs compiled for ARM. My feeling is the processor will struggle decoding even moderate resolution h.264 without the hardware acceleration. A friend is looking at getting the hardware acceleration stuff working on the XO, it is apparently complicated because the kernel for which Marvel released their drivers is quite different to that in 11.3.1. I'll catch up with him tomorrow and see what progress he has made on the 12.1.0 kernel. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] MP4 playback on XO-1.75?
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: On 02/04/12 10:34, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: To make a long story short: Is there a way to watch MP4 videos on an XO-1.75 at this point in time? :-) The Marvel SOC has hardware accelerated decoding and encoding to the point it can play high definition video. See http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/** 11686 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11686 for enabling this hardware. The Raspberry PI and the cubox both have similar hardware. Look to those projects for hints about where to get the software codecs compiled for ARM. My feeling is the processor will struggle decoding even moderate resolution h.264 without the hardware acceleration. A friend is looking at getting the hardware acceleration stuff working on the XO, it is apparently complicated because the kernel for which Marvel released their drivers is quite different to that in 11.3.1. I'll catch up with him tomorrow and see what progress he has made on the 12.1.0 kernel. Tom, thanks a lot for your reply and all the information. Please do keep me/us in the loop about the findings you and your friend make as I'm sure many other people here are also interested in this work. :-) Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] e-mail: christ...@derndorfer.eu ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] MP4 playback on XO-1.75?
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Kevin Mark kevin.m...@verizon.net wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:34:26AM +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Hi all, I just tried playing back the downloaded version of the recent littleBits TED talk ( http://www.ted.com/talks/ ayah_bdeir_building_blocks_that_blink_beep_and_teach.html ) on an XO-1.75 but couldn't get it to work regardless of what I tried. In the past I always used the mplayer version that came with Flavio's JAMedia Activity to watch videos on XOs but that doesn't seem to work. Under Gnome the Movie Player asks for additional codecs but upon trying to install them there's a long error message which I think is trying to tell me that the necessary codecs aren't available for the ARM architecture. To make a long story short: Is there a way to watch MP4 videos on an XO-1.75 at this point in time? :-) I dont have an 175 but I'd hazard a guess at first transcoding to ogg theora? there are IIRC online media converting sites. Hi Kevin, yeah, I had thought of going that route but it would be quite a hassle compared to simply being able to play back the video... :-/ Thanks, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] e-mail: christ...@derndorfer.eu ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] MP4 playback on XO-1.75?
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:34:26AM +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Hi all, I just tried playing back the downloaded version of the recent littleBits TED talk ( http://www.ted.com/talks/ ayah_bdeir_building_blocks_that_blink_beep_and_teach.html ) on an XO-1.75 but couldn't get it to work regardless of what I tried. In the past I always used the mplayer version that came with Flavio's JAMedia Activity to watch videos on XOs but that doesn't seem to work. Under Gnome the Movie Player asks for additional codecs but upon trying to install them there's a long error message which I think is trying to tell me that the necessary codecs aren't available for the ARM architecture. To make a long story short: Is there a way to watch MP4 videos on an XO-1.75 at this point in time? :-) I dont have an 175 but I'd hazard a guess at first transcoding to ogg theora? there are IIRC online media converting sites. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux ==.| http://kevix.myopenid.com..| | : :' : The Universal OS| mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/.| | `. `' http://www.debian.org/.| http://counter.li.org [#238656]| |___`-Unless I ask to be CCd,.assume I am subscribed._| The fashionable drawing rooms of London have always been happy to accept outsiders -- if only on their own, albeit undemanding terms. That is to say, artists, so long as they are not too talented, men of humble birth, so long as they have since amassed several million pounds, and socialists so long as they are Tories. -- Christopher Booker ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
