GeeXboX supports HD contents on Panda

[Thomas Genty]

Hi,

All is in the title

link : http://download.openbricks.org/geexbox-devel-20120806-r14914.pandaboard.tar.bz2
md5sum : 158b4208c2355a5cad3a5152502c8610
(tested with Big_buck_bunny)

limitations :
- mkv, m2t, ts  and iso files don't play very well (gstreamer ? )
- you need to mount a nfs or smb share to access your files (not tested with an usb device)
(see /etc/nfs)

we use for xbmc : the linaro branch from git://github.com/robclark/xbmc.git
and for gstreamer : https://gitorious.org/ubuntu-omap

Thanks to all people involved in these projects.

Feedback and patches are welcome.

Cheers,

Tom

[dedicated4 linux]

Geexbox 3 is a great work, thanks a lot for the good work.

I wanted some information that would really help me a lot, I am working on pandaboard.

I saw in you geexbox 3, while running xbmc the frames per second is really good (58fps) it is using hardware acceleration.

Well I have built the linaro kernel version with ubuntu file system, on that I am trying to install graphics drivers, got from the http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/rsalveti/pvr-omap4.git;a=summary. I have build the drivers from cross compoler arm-linux-gnueabi- which was used to build the kernel. I got an omapdrm_pvr.ko file.

I copied the omapdrm_pvr.ko and usr folder to the filesystem.

After installing the module, lsmod shows omapdrm_pvr.ko running :)

But when I install and run XBMC it is very slow, on the hardware info I can see that the frames per second is just 0.29 :(.
In the GPU it shows SOFTWARE RASTERIZEER. I know this is the problem..

Please can any one show light to solve this. So that my xbmc uses the GPU hardware...

Any help highly appreciated