On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:13 AM, Trevor Woerner <twoer...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu 2017-04-20 @ 05:41:44 AM, Herve Jourdain wrote: >> Yes, VC4 indeed works for both 32bits and 64bits. It was first introduced . >> for 32bits, actually Regarding why still using userland: at this point in . >> time, we have accelerated HW codec (H.264, MPEG2, some audio) only if using. >> userland If one doesn't need that, then VC4 is, in my opinion, the way to . >> go. Otherwise, userland still needs to be used . > > What decoder is needed to play youtube videos? > > Using Andreas' meta-raspi-light (which removes userland and only uses vc4) > I've spent the last hour or so watching youtube videos from my raspberrypi3 > (32-bit build) in chromium, accelerated, with sound (both via the HDMI and the > jack), both on the big monitor and the 7" waveshare touchscreen. Not to > mention I can now run openGL and GLESx apps accelerated. >
try to play 1080p video and you will see the difference. I use my pi3 as media center using kodi, I am waiting for vc4 driver to get feature/performance parity with userland until then we have to keep using it atleast for media centric usecases. > I wasn't able to do that with userland. In fact, it was quite a struggle just > to get it to build! > > Maybe I did something wrong with userland, but vc4 is successful, and > certainly easier to work with. > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
