Re: [linux-sunxi] Banana Pi (M1), Bananian and hardware acceleration for VLC

2016-03-11 Thread Manuel Braga
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:45:59 -0800 (PST) Patrick Frank wrote: > Thank you for posting that article, Manuel. > I must admit that I do not fully understand hardware internals and I > did not buy my Banana Pi for educational purposes. I wanted to build > a cheap multimedia center. > So when the video

Re: [linux-sunxi] Banana Pi (M1), Bananian and hardware acceleration for VLC

2016-03-11 Thread Patrick Frank
Thank you for posting that article, Manuel. I must admit that I do not fully understand hardware internals and I did not buy my Banana Pi for educational purposes. I wanted to build a cheap multimedia center. So when the video encoding takes places in the VPU I am assuming the component that is

Re: [linux-sunxi] Banana Pi (M1), Bananian and hardware acceleration for VLC

2016-03-11 Thread Manuel Braga
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:00:42 -0800 (PST) Patrick Frank wrote: > Hello, > > on my Banana Pi (I think its an M1) I run the Jessie image from > bananian.org with LXDE and VLC via HDMI. > And videos with a 720p resolution play well but only with 1:1 size > not on fullscreen. > Videos with 1080p reso

[linux-sunxi] Banana Pi (M1), Bananian and hardware acceleration for VLC

2016-03-10 Thread Patrick Frank
Hello, on my Banana Pi (I think its an M1) I run the Jessie image from bananian.org with LXDE and VLC via HDMI. And videos with a 720p resolution play well but only with 1:1 size not on fullscreen. Videos with 1080p resolution do not play properly either way. So I enabled the Mali driver in the