[Android] [RFC PATCH 0/3] OMX: android hardware buffers

[Martin Storsjö]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2014, Thomas Guillem wrote:

> I pushed my patches in my github here:
> https://github.com/tguillem/vlc-android .
> 
> I think it's always better to use MediaCodec than IOMX when it's available.

Ok, good, then we agree on that.

> I don't think we should pull my last patch that enable iomx for jb, jbmr2,
> and kitkat (or maybe put a debug/config to enable it) since it may cause
> some instability.
> 
> Indeed, with a Nexus 7v2 (QCOM) on android 4.4, IOMX (with or without hwbuf)
> make mediaserver crash. No problem for vlc because it fallback to libav.
> It need to check that crash later, I tested on Archos Video Player and I
> can't reproduce it using the same conditions.

Right. Having it easily available for debugging would of course be nice 
(since there aren't all that many devices left on 4.0 or earlier), but at 
least disabled for normal use.

// Martin