[vlc-devel] commit: OMX IL needs libdl ( Rémi Denis-Courmont )

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
> Le samedi 20 février 2010 16:57:50 Felipe Contreras, vous avez écrit :
>> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:45 PM, git version control <git at videolan.org>
> wrote:
>> > vlc | branch: master | Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> | Sun Feb  7
>> > 23:35:47 2010 +0200| [f559597a1051ddf769c9ead548623fc079c780bb] |
>> > committer: Rémi Denis-Courmont
>> >
>> > OMX IL needs libdl
>
>> This actually depends on the implementation. Some might need it, some might
>>  not.
>
> I could have written "VLC OMX IL needs libdl", but that would have been kinda
> redumdant in the context of the vlc.git repository ;) Gildas wrote it such
> that it uses dlopen(/dlclose/dlsym).

Ah, cool.

>> I wonder how vlc is using omxil; in gst-openmax the omxil library is
>> loaded at run-time, so it can be configured which library to use.
>
> Gildas hard-coded the order to OMX_Core then omxil-bellagio. Turning it into a
> configuration option would be piece of cake, but I am not sure it would that
> useful.

Well, other platforms might benefit from that. In theory you don't
even need to know the implementation and the same code would work for
all of them.

But in practice what you have is probably good enough.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras