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[Pierre-Hugues Husson <phhusson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Great thing about nvidia is that they don't break APIs everyday, good
old omxplayer2 should still work.
Concerning lack of headers, that's just plain stupid OpenMAX headers
are part of the standard. Granted you miss some nVidia extensions, but
they are only extensions and not mandatory.

2011/8/9 Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:29, Jani Monoses <jani@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Pierre-Hugues Husson <phhusson@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2011/8/9 Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxx>:
>>> > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 00:07, Marc Dietrich
>>> > <Marc.Dietrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >> Am Montag 08 August 2011, 21:50:44 schrieb Jani Monoses:
>>> >>> What is needed in terms of skills and information to get these moved
>>> >>> forward and what form of help would you need?
>>> >>
>>> >> well, sound, suspend on embedded devices.
>>> > + hardware acceleration.
>>> ? OpenMAX and OpenGLES work
>>>
>> OpenGLES does not work with .38 and L4T 12 alpha for the majority of
>> existing OpenGLES/EGL apps in Ubuntu Oneiric.
>> There are possible workarounds for some, if you have the source code, but
>> the drivers need fixing before it is satisfactory.
>> The only app that works out of the box - which I mentioned in the wiki page
>> too - is chromium 13 or above running WebGL demos.
>> If there are more apps, which work right away after an apt-get it would be
>> good to know - to at least see how they are made more permissive in the
>> presence of
>> incomplete driver support and to put them in the wiki for people to validate
>> that some of the graphics stack works for them.
>> Also the only way GLES seems to work is if screen depth is set to 16 in
>> xorg.conf.
>> So no, OpenGLES does not work for the definition of work accepted by most
>> people :)
>>
>
> There is no omxplayer2 for the latest L4T release.
>
> http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra/forum/linux-tegra-release-12-alpha-1-released
>
> From the forum:
> a couple of comments about this release:
>
> coming from with L4T, I'm missing the header files for EGL
> (/usr/include/EGL/*) ,
> OpenGL|ES (/usr/include/{GLES,GLES2}/*) and OpenMAX
> (/usr/include/OpenMAX/IL/*)
> the binary tools like tegrastats and nvtest are no longer included
> omxplayer2 is missing, and there is no obvious way to exercise the
> OpenMAX support; the lack of the beforementioned headers also makes it
> impossible to build external programs using OpenMAX
>
>
> --
> Leon Romanovsky | Independent Linux Consultant
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>