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

[Vladimir Pantelic]

cnxsoft wrote:
>
>>> 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.

It's probably the worst of all the APIs, that's why it is the
"industry standard". Somehow I have failed to meet anybody in
the industry that does not hate it...