videolanclient and iPAQ and Opie

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Christophe Massiot wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> À (At) 23:14 +0200 26/04/2002, Jean-Paul Saman écrivait (wrote) :
> 
> >  > I'm interested in the status of videolan for Opie. Is there
> >already some work
> >  > done? If so, how much needs still to be done?
> 
> I don't know what Opie is, but I understand it is some kind of
> embedded system. I have first started the port on iPAQ familiar Linux
> a few months ago, but since then I have quit my company and I can no
> longer work on it, so that the ipkg isn't maintained any more. I hope
> it still works on familiar, has anyone tested it recently ?
> 
Opie is based on qpe and uses QT-embedded from Trolltech. It stands for
Open Palmtop Integration Environment. Opie, Qtopia (qpe), Intimate and
familiar are the four most favourite distro's for the iPaq. Opie and
Qtopia both use familiar as there base, but without X11. Compaq Research
is busy with getting Opie and Qtopia on top of X11.
Opie (and Qtopia) are better equiped as Personal Information Manager
then a complete familiar is at the moment. They are clearly ahead with
respect to functionality. I think it is worth to get vlc working on that
(and as well as on familiar).

Last week I had a demo with iPaq and vlc-0.3.1. I used as streaming
server vlms and that worked fantastic. The audio did not work perfectly
it sounded like audio underruns, so I guessed we still had to do the
video part. But as you write below that a lot of work has already be
done. I guess an extra look at the audio part can't hurt. 

So I think, I'll have to look at the audio again and do some testing.

A pitty that you do not have as much time for that kind of work as you
did have. I'll try to spend some more time on this and get an up to date
ipk out. Do you have some patches for SDL on iPaq? Or is the libsdl.org
good enough.

> >- video decoder should be integer based, this probably needs a rewrite
> >(needs guru)
> 
> The video decoder is already integer-based. A floating point
> implementation would be far too slow, and video IDCT doesn't need to
> be as accurate as audio... I even think we got rid of all floats in
> VLC, except in the native MPEG and ac3 decoder. What were you
> thinking of ?
> 
So the complete video path is not integer based yet? 
If that is so, then I think we should get the native MPEG and ac3
decoder integer based. Is that possible?

A vout_qte based on purely QT-embedded and a qte native UI too would be
nice. I have some ideas for the interface and only need time to do it.
Some help can not hurt either ;-)

> --
> Christophe Massiot.
> 
> --
> This is the vlc-devel mailing-list, see http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
> To unsubscribe, please read http://www.videolan.org/lists.html
> If you are in trouble, please contact <postmaster at videolan.org>

-- 
This is the vlc-devel mailing-list, see http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
To unsubscribe, please read http://www.videolan.org/lists.html
If you are in trouble, please contact <postmaster at videolan.org>