[Arm-netbook] Allwinner A10/A13 Video Decoder Reverse engineered

[Vladimir Pantelic]

On 09/04/2013 01:18 AM, Ken Phillis Jr wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Vladimir Pantelic <vladoman at gmail.com
> <mailto:vladoman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 09/03/2013 06:05 PM, Ken Phillis Jr wrote:
>
>         3) This does not currently include OpenGL nor OpenMAX  support.
>         Both of
>         these features are required for useful integration on XBMC,
>         Flash and
>         other platforms.
>
>
>     why would you need OpenMAX in order have a video decoder supported
>     in XBMC? the demo itself uses mplayer, whatever codec integration
>     was done
>     in mplayer can easily be done in XBMC too, why add a (useless) layer
>     of OpenMAX on top?
>
>
> The problem is pertaining to making sure that the OpenGL ( or OpenGL ES
> ) support is in place because XBMC requires the video acceleration code
> to work properly with OpenGL. If that does not happen the user
> experience degrades to useless.

as long as you can decode into a piece of memory that openGL can then 
render I still don't see why one would need OMX, but well, writing a 
wrapper is mainly tedious