[vlc-devel] [PATCH 2/5] mediacodec: add hevc mimetype

[Thomas Guillem]

Ah yes, I'm curious to know if my patches work on rk32.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 7:29 PM, John Stebbins <stebbins at jetheaddev.com> wrote:
> Ok.  I'll test to see if your OMX changes work on my box.  I think they should since I was able to make stagefright
> playback in xbmc work.  The Measy is built on the rk3288 SoC.  There are a lot of very cheap (< $100) android players
> based on this SoC becoming available now.
>
> On 10/03/2014 10:05 AM, Thomas Guillem wrote:
>> I tested it only on a Nvidia Shield tablet (Tegra K1). It run fine
>> (with the others patches).
>>
>> VLC use the MediaCodec API from JAVA, it's the public API from
>> android-sdk that don't change for one manufacturer.
>> But all manufacturers can modify the private native API
>> (MediaCodec.cpp and co), so that where they add support for extra
>> codecs..
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:47 PM, John Stebbins <stebbins at jetheaddev.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Do you have an android box that this works on?  I tested such a patch on my Measy B4S and mediacodec fails during
>>> configure.  I did some further research, downloaded android SDK sources for another similar box and looked for
>>> problems.  Turns out mediacodec is missing support in other places for hevc.  Specifically, there is a hard coded list
>>> of "roles" in one of the functions that doesn't include an hevc decoder role. I see that you have fixed a similar issue
>>> in VLCs OMX implementation.
>>>
>>> I've seen reports that some manufacturers have made hevc mediacodec decode working, so I think some are distributing
>>> with modified SDK. Do you have one of these, if so which?
>>>
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