Le mardi 05 janvier 2010 à 00:14 +0300, Goga777 a écrit :
I wish we could get away from xine.
how ? does it possible at all ?
softdevice uses ffmpeg with DirectFB, and works wonderfully ("worked", in my case). Lack of X11 brings a lot of little improvements. In a pure STB setup, X11 is really useless, so why not just get rid of it. Xine have also lots of useless features for a STB. The only problem is that display drivers are well maintained in Xorg, but framebuffer drivers used by DirectFB may not be maintained as much.
I switched from softdevice to xineliboutput because I was tired of patching/recompiling the kernel/DirectFB/softdevice/etc with framebuffer fixes. The net result with xineliboutput is that I can use binary packages (e-tobi), which brings visual artifacts and crashes.
Maybe current Intel framebuffer/DirectFB drivers are OK with that Broadcom chip (re. deinterlacing, scaling, etc.), reviving the general interest with softdevice ?