Android L: Missing ALL hardware video decoder (Nexus devices)

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Do, 2015-05-14 at 09:37 -0700, Gregoire Gentil wrote:
> I'm using gst_registry_get_feature_list_by_plugin(gst_registry_get(), 
> "androidmedia") to list all the hardware-related features.
> 
> On both Nexus 7 2013 / Android 5.1 and Nexus 5 / Android 5.0, I get the 
> following:
> [...]
> 
> 
> On Nexus Galaxy / Android 4.3, I definitely see some hardware video 
> decoding features including amcviddec-omxgoogleh264decoder
> 
> I think that there is a problem here. It doesn't make sense that 
> Gstreamer sees all audio decoding and video encoding and not any audio 
> encoding nor video decoding...
> 
> Does anyone know what is happening?

That's probably related to not supporting the raw video format of those
decoders. And is most likely fixed with the patches in this bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747126

If not, please report a bug and provide a GStreamer debug log there.

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Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · http://www.centricular.com
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