On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Michał Sawicz <michal.saw...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 20.03.2014 09:24, Selene Scriven wrote: >> I've also noticed that our media player doesn't seem to support >> very many video codecs. I had difficulty finding videos it can >> actually play. This most likely isn't a regression, but it'd be >> awfully nice if we could add in the full lavc / ffmpeg codec set, >> and be able to play practically every video format ever made. > > The "industry standards", i.e. mp4 / mov / flv with h264 and mp3 should > play just fine. AFAICT shipping lavc is not an option due to licensing. > And then it adds a whole lot of MBs to our image size with all the > dependencies.
We had lavc / ffmpeg and had to remove because of licensing issues. Even if we add them back, software decoding is currently broken, so it wouldn't help. >> That is, assuming the hardware can handle it. I think we're >> still using software decoders, considering that my battery charge >> level actually went down during playback even though it was >> plugged in. (and that was on a low-bitrate 640x352 video; >> probably drains faster with HD video) > > No, it's not playing in software - if battery is drained during playback > that's a bug. We're only doing hardware decoding, so it might be indeed a bug in our gst-hybris stack. Would you mind opening a bug for that? I know Jim changed the dequeue timeout values before, and that directly affects the amount of cpu used, so we might have a regression (probably need some further fine tuning). >> (would also be pretty cool if we could include support for >> mounting nfs and samba shares directly and playing media from >> them) > > *cough* geek alert *cough* > > But for real, a network-share browser would be part of the content-hub > story, I imagine. You'd browse the remote shares and either share the > actual content to a music app (which would then actually be downloaded > to the device), or just a playlist (which would then be streamed, > assuming gstreamer can actually stream from whatever source that is). Streaming from nfs/samba should probably work already, but we'd need someone to give that specific url to the mediaplayer-app. Cheers, -- Ricardo Salveti de Araujo -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
