gstreamer 1.0 android hardware acceleration

Armin Novak armin.novak at thincast.com
Tue Jun 17 00:13:05 PDT 2014


On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 07:55 +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> On So, 2014-06-15 at 21:35 +0200, Armin Novak wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm trying to port a plugin for FreeRDP (https://github.com/FreeRDP) to
> > android. It relies on GStreamer and initial tests were quite promising.
> > 
> > What I'm currently facing is a problem with hardware acceleration on
> > android not being used properly.
> > 
> > Already found a bug, that may be the source of the problem
> > ( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731204 )
> > 
> > As it looks like it is being worked on right now (great to see) I'd like
> > to ask, if it is already usable and how to compile some sample to test
> > it. (or when it is considered to be included in a release)
> > 
> > If there is need, I could offer some help (although I'm not too familiar
> > with GStreamer internals, I'm proficiently fluent in C)
> 
> Check cerbero from here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/cerbero/
> The README file contains some instructions on how to build GStreamer.
> 
> Additionally you will have to point the gst-plugins-bad and
> gst-plugins-bad-static recipes in the recipes directory to a GIT branch
> somewhere that contains the patches from the bug.

Thank you,
have current GIT master running.
But a soon as I compile gst-plugins-bad from the branch, I get an error
(Failed to upload buffer)

So I assume, there is currently no (fully) working hardware acceleration
available?




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