use android binary omx codec

[Mohammed Sameer]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:45:45AM +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> On Do, 2015-02-26 at 02:19 +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:52:35PM +0800, Aihua Zhao wrote:
> > >  Hi Experts:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > >  I'm trying to use android omx binary codec in some way, and noticed the
> > >  implementation from Ubuntu and Jolla.
> > >  Ubuntu
> > >  touch: [1]https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-bad1
> > >  .0
> > >  Jolla: [2]https://github.com/sailfishos/gst-omx
> > 
> > I created the implementation for Jolla.
> > Just note that this implementation is for GStreamer 0.10
> > 
> > Currently Jolla is migrating to GStreamer 1.x with a new homegrown
> > modules that integrate with Android at stagefright level for media decoding
> > and encoding and at camera service level for camera access.
> > 
> > The code is open and I can point you at it if you are interested. It's still
> > in development but the results are promising.
> 
> That would indeed be interesting :)

I replied to Aihua with the links already. He asked first ;-)

> > Just note that even though the code is meant to be generic, it's meant to be
> > built per device against the specific version of Android used by Sailfish OS.
> 
> Well, what else can you do with stagefright :) The API/ABI changes
> between Android versions, devices and even device firmware versions
> sometimes...

something on top of media service should be more agnostic. It just depends on
what you consider to be an abstraction layer!

Cheers,

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