On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> wrote: >> The way I understood all these was that there are short-term and >> long-term goals for better support with the video engine. > > As an end user, I think that having mainline support (not just for the > kernel, but the rest of the stack as well) for something like Kodi (nee > XBMC) would be great. > > Ever since the first Android TV sticks came out, I have hoped to use one > of those beasts as a media-center. But so far I haven't been able to do > that: when using GNU/Linux the video playback sucks for lack of VPU > support, and when using Android I'm faced with the problem that there's > no DVD player software available in Android (there are lots of players > which advertise support for playing DVDs, but they actually don't > support playing from an optical drive). >
In Android, the Android image would need to implement the MediaCodec (as in http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaCodec.html) class for CedarX in order to provide support for hardware decoding/encoding to the apps. It's "MediaCodec" in Anrdoid 4.1 or newer. It was "Stagefright" in previous versions of Android. In terms of Kodi for Android, if MediaCodec is configured properly for the Allwinner SoC, then Kodi should work out of the box. It should be possible to retrofit the libvdecodec.so/libvencoder.so libraries (found on https://github.com/allwinner-zh) into an existing Android image in order to get MediaCodec working properly for Kodi. Quink, do you have any instructions for that? Simos -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
