[Gstreamer-openmax] Support for hardware codecs

[Felipe Contreras]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Stephen M. Webb <stephenw at xandros.com> wrote:
> On 01/04/09 11:15, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, that's the next step, I plan to implement something like:
>> ./configure MAPPING=maemo
>>
>> Would that fit your use case?
>
> No, configuring at compile time won't help, I need to configure at runtime.  I
> want to be able to distribute a single gstreamer-openmax library binary
> package for, say, Cortex-A8 and be able to configure it at runtime (well,
> install time) for the actual hardware it's running on, say OMAP3, i.MX51, or
> QSD8x50.  Just for example.
>
>> I am planning to do that soon, but of course I would not get mad if
>> you beat me to it :)
>
> I was hoping you'd say you were just about to check in the changes.  I will
> now frown and grumble and see what I can come up with.

Ah, I see.

Well, there's definitely plans on that, but it's pretty low on my
priority list =/

My idea was to create a gst-openmax registry, with this API:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350477

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Felipe Contreras