saundraua3

Hello All,
 
how can I get hardware video acceleration for S905x on Debian/Armbian using Gstreamer?
 
I installed gstreamer, and using 'decodebin' and 'fbdevsink' gives terrible performance (software decoding).
 
I did some searching and found that amlogic has two GST plugins for hardware accelerated video decoding: "amlvdec" and "amlvsink"
 
I was able to locate the source code here:
http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/download/ARM/filesystem/
 
I downloaded the newest archive "arm-buildroot-2016-08-18-5aaca1b35f.tar.gz"
 
Would this work with debian/Armbian?
 
When I try to compile the plugin, I get the message:
 
 
so I searched online, and found:
https://github.com/mdrjr/c1_aml_libs
 
I tried to compile this however I got the error:
 
 
 
Does anyone know how I can get Gstreamer to play videos with hardware acceleration?
 
Thanks so much!
 

Disabling it in the kernel config is the easiest way.
Reading a Device Tree property to allow disabling it without recompilation would be the correct way, I'll try to implement this before the update and test if it actually resolves the issue.