[mythtv-users] Mac Mini Video Acceleration Question (h.264)

[Jarod Wilson]

On Oct 8, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Scott D. Davilla wrote:

>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Scott D. Davilla <<mailto:davilla at 4pi.com 
>> >davilla at 4pi.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Before anyone asks, no, you can't try/test this, the driver/libs  
>> required are not public yet. And that's what we are working toward,  
>> the process is slow as there is another player involved besides  
>> myself and Jarod. And no we can't mention the other player right  
>> now but it should be obvious.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any thoughts on a timeline, even rough? 6mo? 1year? I'd be  
>> interested in a solution using this stuff. An ATV with the HD  
>> decoder would be an awesome frontend.
>
> Hard to estimate, we thought it would be public by now :) The wheels  
> turn slow when legalities are involved. Maybe a few more weeks,  
> maybe a month.
>
> Remember, this is would be public appearance of the driver/lib.  
> Integration into a player would depend on the player developers and  
> their time line.
>
> I'm point lead dev for XBMC (osx/linux/windows) integration and of  
> course would be more than willing to assist other app devs in  
> integration details to share what has been learned about working  
> with this device. I'm also the one doing the driver port to an OSX  
> kext.

I've got about 250 lines of code added to mythtv in my local tree,  
which is more or less just a shell of support for the card. None of  
the actual functionality is wired up yet though, haven't had a whole  
lot of time for it of late. The driver does work with a basic test app  
and a gstreamer plugin (mostly), all the way back on kernel 2.6.18  
(Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) and all the way up to 2.6.31 (Fedora 12),  
x86 and x86_64 alike. (Support for newer kernels and 64-bit  
cleanliness were the major things I've worked on extensively to date).

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com