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

[Ian Stirling]

Jens Fursund wrote:

>> Mikko Rauhala wrote:
>>
>>  Really peeps, face it, seems that the sane way to do non-crappy video on
>>  the Freerunner is to get driver support for that Glamo mpeg-4 decoding
>>  (remember, the hardware is capable). Hopefully everyone's grasping at
>>  straws makes OM bump up the priority a bit (though again, for now there
>>  are certainly more important things to do).
> 
> Is mpeg-4 decoding in the Glamo chip only video? Or could we use it to
> decode audio as well to decrease CPU-time, thereby having more
> batterytime for playing mpeg4 audio?
> 

Video only.
It would be lovely if it did audio too, and you could feed it a 
scatter-gather list of blocks from the SD to play - but no.

So we've got to decode the audio in the CPU, and feed the extracted 
video stream from the file read by the CPU to the video chip. 
(neglecting the fact that tehre are no drivers)