[Arm-netbook] Sorry state of Linux hardware video decoder libraries / lack of single API

[cnxsoft]

>> In other words: GNU/Linux O.S has too many multi-media frameworks,
>   .... pretty much all of which have plugin support, pretty much all of
> which boil down to ffmpeg.  so it's not as bad as it looks - just
> fucking irritating that cedarx is proprietary.
>
> l.
>
>
There is supposedly a standard for audio/video hardware decoding 
(OpenMAX), but it's not used by all manufacturers, and from the info I 
could gather, it's vague enough so that different implementations may 
not be compatible.