ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Jim Hodapp <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 2:46 AM, Daniel van Vugt <
daniel.van.vugt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Two things we need for efficient video playback:
>   1. Hardware codec support; and
>

We've had hardware accelerated video decoding for over 2 years now. The
only place where video playback is not hardware accelerated yet is from the
web browser, but that is what is in progress.


>   2. Hardware overlay bypass of simple surfaces.
>
> Don't know the status of #1 but I've heard it was coming, if not landed
> already.
>
> #2 is in progress with the Mir team right now (part of the "nested bypass"
> effort). Don't expect it finished till Mir 0.16 or Mir 0.17, or later.
>
>
>
>
> On 20/08/15 04:51, Eric Holmi wrote:
>
>> guys, my Nexus 4 (most recent stable version) gave me a burn that almost
>> blistered after 15 minutes of YouTube (wifi), and went from 29% battery
>> to 2% in that time. I think that needs to be fixed.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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