Glamo

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:16:08PM +0000, shamsul hassan wrote:
> Hi,
> you can have a look at this link
> http://unadventure.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/accelerating-in-my-pocket/
> 
> I think this guy is working on it..

I wrote to balrog some time ago, it great pity, but he said that he
won't have time to continue his work on this..

Someone expirienced with glamo code should take a look on my changes and
it would be great to use DRM code from Thomas White to access glamo from
mplayer too.

Balrog'2 reply:

Hi Martin,

2009/9/8 Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>:
> I've updated them for latest mplayer code and used them in OE repo.
> http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2009-July/051593.html

Many thanks, I've merged your changes into master of that fork repo.
Let me know what your username is if you want to use that repository
for development.

>
> Thomas White (developer of glamo DRI driver with KMS support)
> suggested
> to use DRI for this MPEG decoder access. I'm not as experienced as you
> are, my skills and time were hardly enough for merging your patch with
> modified configure/Makefile and few other "small" changes in upstream.

Yes, I think using that DRI for the decoder access would be the way to
go, also perhaps using one of the new frameworks that popped up in
mplayer.  Unforunately I won't have to time to work on that and I
might not have the required skills either, I've never done advanced
graphics stuff.

>
> Are you still interested in mplayer glamo code? Have you tried to push
> your patches upstream (I haven't found any e-mail about that in
> mplayer
> ML)?

I've never tried to push them because I wasn't sure my approach was
correct, I suppose the use of the hwmp4 codec that I added has now
either been obsoleted upstream by a similar codec added by somebody
else or there is some new entire frame that obsoletes all the
passthrough codecs.  Now I won't have time to work on it and the other
demotivator is that the number of GTA02s that have been produced with
the glamo chip is limited and the new models I hear will not have it.

Thanks for your work on making the mplayer fork usable on Neo so far.

Cheers