libvlc and raspberry pi

[gekod]

Hello,

I am a software developer living in Luxembourg and would like to congratulate the staff behind VLC for their amazing work! libvlc really is a piece of powerful software.

Now to y question:
I have been playing around with a Raspberry Pi device lately. I would like to work with libvlc on it which I already did but the problem seems to be the hardware acceleration as I have been able to read in some forums. I would like to ask if there is something In the works for libvlc and VLCplayer to work on such devices. I have heard of openmax but haven't been able to find any hint of it working on the raspberry as it seems to have been built for mobile devices rather than devices running desktop distributions.

Thank you in advance.

Gekod.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

None of the VLC developers have access to a RaspBerry Pi.
OpenMAX is OpenMAX, desktop or mobile, does not change a thing.
I think noone really tried.

[gekod]

Well, I took my conclusions from here (viewtopic.php?f=13&t=101149#wrap) where VLC developers were stating the incompatibilities because of VLC desktop version and openmax being 'designed for mobile platforms'

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

If the claims made in that topic are correct, RaspBerry blatantly violates the OpenMAX specification. Then it is to be expected that VLC won't work, at least not without unofficial hacks. However, I think nobody ever tried.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I think noone tried correctly, indeed.

[gekod]

As both of you are stating that no one tried correctly, I guess you have some clue of what would be the right direction to go. Would you be that kind and share your thoughts with us? I think the community would be very pleased...

GeKod

[Arite]

All of the Raspberry Pi's VideoCore driver code (for the BCM2835 SoC) has now been opened sourced:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221

Dunno if that helps VLC at all?

Arite.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

As such, most probably not at all.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

As both of you are stating that no one tried correctly, I guess you have some clue of what would be the right direction to go. Would you be that kind and share your thoughts with us? I think the community would be very pleased...

GeKod

Compile correctly VLC, activate the OMXIL code and activate the debug. Then read.

[gekod]

Merci. I'll give it a try

[craigvansant]

gekod ~

Any luck with the compile. I'm up against the same challenge.

Thanks

[Rono]

The same for us. Is there any progress with the VLC.

Love to hear any activity on this.

[gekod]

[quote craigvansant ]
gekod ~

Any luck with the compile. I'm up against the same challenge.

Thanks
[/quote]

Well, I gave it up the moment I recognized that the VLC developers were ignoring the Raspberry platform completely and were not interested in helping out making their software even more crossplatform. And if it was as easy as they were stating it would already had happened.
So I switched to omxplayer and am now working on that.

GeKod

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Well, I gave it up the moment I recognized that the VLC developers were ignoring the Raspberry platform completely and were not interested in helping out making their software even more crossplatform.

Nice trolling...

New video output just for RPI:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=co ... a56805b642

OMX fixes only for RPI:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=co ... c93db8e54b
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=co ... 4f99c242be
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=co ... 888fba6667


And so many other commits...

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Like those:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=co ... 4901f7b695
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=co ... fc4c7478d0
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=co ... 837fe1a65e

And these:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=hi ... il;hb=HEAD

[gekod]

Well I didn't mean to troll on anybody.

Some VLC devs (not necessarily you) gave me the impression that they weren't very much interested at the time.
Anyway now maybe there are fixes out, I don't know as I didn't search anymore the last months 'cause I'm using omxplayer now.

Thanks for the links and hints tho and excuse me if I gave any wrong impression. Wasn't my intention.

Au revoir.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Not every VLC developers are interested in Raspberry Pi, obviously. On the one hand, there are no platforms that all VLC developers would be interested in anyway. On the other hand, most VLC developers do not even have a Raspberry Pi, nor the use or time to work with it.

If you have fixes for Raspberry Pi, you are welcome to post them for review to vlc-devel.

[lectrick]

I would be willing to provide a few VLC developers with a Raspberry Pi in order to increase the likelihood of this.

Would any be interested in this?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

There is quite a bit of work on VLC for Raspberry pi https://github.com/julianscheel/vlc-omx

[gekod]

For all of you interested I have posted a tutorial on my blog on how to compile VLC with hardware acceleration on raspberry!
http://intensecode.blogspot.com/2013/10 ... ation.html

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Yes, but you really should look at julian's work.