streaming media player for Pocket Edge

cybertheque · 04-23-2015, 02:58 PM

Greetings,

Has anyone here found or built vlc for armv5 and tried it on the pocket edge?

The build environment is quite exacting according to comments in the vlc mailing lists and the process fraught with perils. How about any other successes with streaming media on this device? 'mplayer' works well enough on armv7 android but again there doesn't seem to be a build suitable for the pxa168 readily available.

The Marvell datasheet for the SoC states that it is targeted to IPTV and multimedia devices and does have a form of GPU (hardware acceleration) but I have no idea if the SDK is available or used by any current projects.

Michael

zephyrjs · Yesterday, 10:46 AM

I have spent quite a lot of time lately trying to get this (VLC/libmplayer) to work, but long story short/without going into too much technical detail, it is not feasible because the ffmpeg libraries have assembly libraries which have embedded instruction sets which are not compatible with the CPU/OS architecture. I tried compiling the libraries in C-only mode, but performance was abysmal (2fps at best).

However, I am building my own media player which uses FUSE to mount remote folders through an ssh connection, and so far that is working quite well. It's a silly side project but it seems to mostly work. Why am I doing this to myself? I don't know. AI makes this more feasible though; it helped me set up a dev environment and is writing most of the code (badly). But it (mostly) works!

04-23-2015, 02:58 PM	#1
cybertheque Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2015 Device: pocket edge	streaming media player for Pocket Edge Greetings, Has anyone here found or built vlc for armv5 and tried it on the pocket edge? The build environment is quite exacting according to comments in the vlc mailing lists and the process fraught with perils. How about any other successes with streaming media on this device? 'mplayer' works well enough on armv7 android but again there doesn't seem to be a build suitable for the pxa168 readily available. The Marvell datasheet for the SoC states that it is targeted to IPTV and multimedia devices and does have a form of GPU (hardware acceleration) but I have no idea if the SDK is available or used by any current projects. Michael

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Yesterday, 10:46 AM	#2
zephyrjs Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Pocket eDGe	I have spent quite a lot of time lately trying to get this (VLC/libmplayer) to work, but long story short/without going into too much technical detail, it is not feasible because the ffmpeg libraries have assembly libraries which have embedded instruction sets which are not compatible with the CPU/OS architecture. I tried compiling the libraries in C-only mode, but performance was abysmal (2fps at best). However, I am building my own media player which uses FUSE to mount remote folders through an ssh connection, and so far that is working quite well. It's a silly side project but it seems to mostly work. Why am I doing this to myself? I don't know. AI makes this more feasible though; it helped me set up a dev environment and is writing most of the code (badly). But it (mostly) works!