Amlogic Video Decode Driver Nearly Ready With H.264 Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Amlogic Video Decode Driver Nearly Ready With H.264 Support

The in-kernel staging Amlogic Meson video decode driver could soon handle H.264 support as soon as Linux 5.5...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...-Decode-Almost

[boxie]

It'll be pretty awesome when one day we can get a set top box and just have the stock kernel powering it!

[caligula]

It'll be pretty awesome when one day we can get a set top box and just have the stock kernel powering it!

Didn't RPi deliver this years ago?

[willmore]

Didn't RPi deliver this years ago?

No. The Rpi isn't a set top box to start with--it lacks IR and local storage (SATA).

[simburde]

The real goal for Amlogic is H.265 10-bit decode mainline kernel support, but I guess we have to wait at least a year before we get feature-full blob-free LibreELEC Amlogic builds. Thanks to Maxime for his great work!

[boxie]

Didn't RPi deliver this years ago?

Amlogic just happen to be the chipset supplier of choice for a lot STB manufacturers. Understandably too, their stuff works quite well.

But we thousands of these things at a time

[tuxd3v]

Amlogic just happen to be the chipset supplier of choice for a lot STB manufacturers. Understandably too, their stuff works quite well.
But we thousands of these things at a time

they have nice socks..
but this type os socks are for more processing demand workloads..

But for video/audio, I rater go with Allwiner H6, or even a A20..

[MadeUpName]

I have to be honest, I don't see any reason why this should be in the kernel. What is wrong with libx264/5 or Cisco's thing?

[simburde]

I have to be honest, I don't see any reason why this should be in the kernel. What is wrong with libx264/5 or Cisco's thing?

It's a driver for hardware decoder used by Amlogic SoCs. There's no codec implementation included. It just passes bits to a chip and get other bits back.

[MadeUpName]

It's a driver for hardware decoder used by Amlogic SoCs. There's no codec implementation included. It just passes bits to a chip and get other bits back.

Thanks for the explanation.