Video Playback virtually impossible on Neo Freerunner? (Re: Video of Qt 4.4 on Neo1973: brings iPhone like graphics)

[Tim Shannon]

I think the highest priority in general should be getting the proper drivers
written for the GPU on the Freerunner, it seems like such a waste to have
it, and not be able to use it.

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Mikko Rauhala <mjrauhal at cc.helsinki.fi>
wrote:

> to, 2008-04-24 kello 19:20 +0800, Carsten Haitzler kirjoitti:
> > the graphics chip (glamo) can decode mpeg4
> > itself, but we dont have the time or resources to do this properly
> ourselves.
> > you are free to do it yourself as we provide all the code, but you would
> need to
> > reverse-engineer the graphics chip or hope that graphics documentation
> can be
> > made public. right now you need an NDA to see the docs.
>
> Righto. Of course, I'll be still buying the phone regardless, but I
> would hope OM toss some resources this way _after_ getting the system
> otherwise mass-market operational (or yeah, at least get the mpeg
> decoding part independently and publicly documented as was alluded to as
> a possibility with the glamo anyway). Leaving it totally unsupported in
> these conditions would be somewhat downletting. (Again, talking extended
> duration here, I don't mind it being unsupported for now.)
>
> And for my two cents, screw "properly" if it gets too much in the way. A
> device node that takes ioctls for geometry and mpeg-4 packets to decode?
> If that's what it takes to get the functionality... And hey, any crappy
> implementation would at least provide information for Somebody Else to
> perhaps make it cleaner.
>
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