ubuntu-omap-extras available for 11.10

[ndec]

hi there,

with a bit of delay compared to the initial plan i share couple of weeks ago, i am glad to let you know that we finally released the 'Ubuntu extras' in the TI OMAP PPA on Launchpad. If you already installed the meta package 'ubuntu-omap-extras', just go ahead and upgrade your system and all the new packages will be installed! If you haven't installed it yet, it's time to do it!

The 'top-level' ubuntu-omap-extras will install the following packages:

 - ubuntu-omap-extras-multimedia: another meta package that installs all the requires packages for MM use case:
   - GST, a modified version still compatible with all Ubuntu apps such as totem
   - gst-ducati and libDCE the main components that bring MM h/w acceleration into the system
   - the ducati DCE firmware including the following codecs: MPEG4/H264 encode & decode + VC1/MPEG2 decode
 - ubuntu-omap-extras-graphics: meta package that pulls in all GFX components including X11 driver (binary blob) and SGX kernel module (source using DKMS to build)
 - ubuntu-omap-extras-config: some config scripts to set some permission issues, and to ensure that the Ducati firmware is loaded at boot time by upstart.

As mentioned previously, this release comes with the following major changes (compared to what was done for 10.10):
 - DCE has become the primary interface for the h/w accelerated codecs (instead of DCE)
 - h/w accelerated support for more decoders and encoders
 - a new GST video-sink: pvrvideosink to display video through the SGX
(instead of v4l2sink)
 - Linux 3.0 kernel
 - ...

You can report issues on Launchpad directly, use https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-omap4-extras-multimedia or https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-omap4-extras-graphics. We will push
updates for bug fixes in the PPA, so make sure to keep your system up-to-date!

If someone wants to volunteer to give our wiki (http://omappedia.org/wiki/OMAP_Ubuntu_Main) a little bit of love, please go ahead and update with the latest references, otherwise we will try to do it in the coming days/weeks.

Next steps for us are:
 - migration to rpmsg driver (aka syslink3, see http://lwn.net/Articles/448562/)
 - DRI2 extension for Video support (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTgxOQ)
 - migration to GST 0.11 (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/ZeroPointEleven) which addresses many of the issues we faced on 0.10
 - migration to a new open source X11 driver for OMAP (https://github.com/robclark/xf86-video-omap)
 - integrate support for Camera (http://www.omappedia.org/wiki/PandaBoard_Camera_Support)
 - and many more ;-)

Many thanks to all the folks involved in this release ... in no specific order: Rob Clark, Olivier Naudan, Xavier Boudet, Seb Jan, Alessandro Decina, Luciana Fujii, Rogelio Garcia, Fred Plourde, Ricardo Salveti, Andy Green, Jay Goluguri, Nipuna Gunasekera and of course the entire Ubuntu ARM team!!

cheers,

nicolas

[Mauro Ribeiro]

Based on this sweet means, means that we can now watch our 720p/1080p on panbaboard?

2011/11/14 ndec <nde...@gmail.com>

[Samet Atdağ]

Hi, I was waiting for this. Thank you all.

I've made a fresh install Ubuntu One Iric,  then installed TI Omap Extras package. 

Linux gave a Xorg error and X did not started. Then I made a dist-upgrade from terminal, it installed many updates, such as Linux Kernel 3.0. Then I've restarted Panda, Ubuntu started. There are some graphical changes such as some transparency. 

I've installed VLC and downloaded some 1080p files. I tried playing this sample file with:

mplayer:

I could see only one frame, no play. (Here is mplayer log: http://yxy.in/dir/pandaboard/mplayer-log.txt)

VLC:

Video started very slowly, played about 1 fps for 10 seconds, then Ubuntu restarted.

(Here is VLC log: http://yxy.in/dir/pandaboard/vlc-log.txt)

Also this is my /var/log/syslog while these trials: http://yxy.in/dir/pandaboard/syslog.txt

I've tried on two seperate pandaboards to prevent any hardware related error. 

Do you have any idea? What should I try next?

Samet

[Rob Clark]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Samet Atdağ <sam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I was waiting for this. Thank you all.
> I've made a fresh install Ubuntu One Iric,  then installed TI Omap Extras
> package.
> Linux gave a Xorg error and X did not started. Then I made a dist-upgrade
> from terminal, it installed many updates, such as Linux Kernel 3.0. Then
> I've restarted Panda, Ubuntu started. There are some graphical changes such
> as some transparency.
> I've installed VLC and downloaded some 1080p files. I tried playing this
> sample file with:
> mplayer:
> I could see only one frame, no play. (Here is mplayer
> log: http://yxy.in/dir/pandaboard/mplayer-log.txt)
> VLC:
> Video started very slowly, played about 1 fps for 10 seconds, then Ubuntu
> restarted.
> (Here is VLC log: http://yxy.in/dir/pandaboard/vlc-log.txt)
> Also this is my /var/log/syslog while these
> trials: http://yxy.in/dir/pandaboard/syslog.txt
> I've tried on two seperate pandaboards to prevent any hardware related
> error.
> Do you have any idea? What should I try next?

try totem.. vlc and mplayer are not supporting the hw accelerated
video decode/encode..

BR,
-R

[Samet Atdağ]

Totem played 1080p videos well. 

Thank you.

Samet

[Dechesne, Nicolas]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Samet Atdağ <sam...@gmail.com> wrote:

Totem played 1080p videos well. 

Thank you.

thanks to report this ... we tend to get only complains in general ;-)

Here is a nice tip to study the GST pipeline used by totem, from command line:

export GST_DEBUG_DUMP_DOT_DIR=/tmp
totem <my video file>

that will generate a graphical representation of the GST pipeline using the .dot representation (http://www.graphviz.org/).  you can transform the .dot file into a .png directly on panda:

sudo apt-get install graphviz

then dot -T png -O /tmp/xxx.dot

in the .png you can study all the GST elements being used by totem, and you will see DCE and pvrvideosink being used to decode and render...

nico

[Jack Fang]

Have you noticed that the sound is not continuing all the time, why you use totem to play H.264 videos ?
I try to modify some configuration of pulseaudio, but it have no effect ...

2011/11/17 Samet Atdağ <sam...@gmail.com>

[Dechesne, Nicolas]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Jack Fang <jkfa...@gmail.com> wrote:

Have you noticed that the sound is not continuing all the time,

can you share the clip that you are using somehow? does this clip play correctly on a PC?
 

why you use totem to play H.264 videos ?

totem is the default video player in ubuntu. also the integration of the h/w accelerated codec that we did is done with GST. so you need to  use a video player that indeed uses GST or you don't get h/w acceleration (e.g. VLC or mplayer don't use GST and as such aren't using h/w acceleration for now).

you can use GST pipeline directly from the command line as well.

I try to modify some configuration of pulseaudio, but it have no effect ...

you might want to try to disable pulseaudio completely to try to isolate the problem a bit further.

[E V]

Any of you have had problems with HDMI audio since installing extras? I have realized that HDMI has disappeared in graphical config (But it is listed in alsamixer as a card). No sound is outputted.

2011/11/17 Dechesne, Nicolas <nde...@gmail.com>

[Jacques Bride]

Hello all

With your great help I managed to repair my ubuntu 11.10 upgrade and log on pandaboard via lghtdm. I did upgrade the ubuntu_omap4_extras with success apparently.

However, I am not able to play video clips (I tried totem as advised here)

All mp4 video clips (H264) I played with (720P and 1080P) are running fine on my PC but when I try to play them on Pandaboard from and external usb drive od SD card the totem window is black and nothing happen even after waiting several minutes.  I do not even get an error message.

Do you have hints on what I should start looking at to understand the issue?

Thanks
Jacques

ps: do not know if it's related but I still get an error message when I boot before loading lightdm:" fmdrv unable to open fm core"

2011/11/17 Dechesne, Nicolas <nde...@gmail.com>

[Jacques Bride]

The FM core is the radio FM receiver isn't it? My EA2 board comes without the connectivity chip, that explains the error.

Question: could it somehow disturb the ue of the OMAP4 video acceleration because of an incomplete omap4_extras setup?

Thanks
Jacques

2011/11/18 Jacques Bride <jacque...@googlemail.com>

[Dmytro F]

I have installed multimedia extensions and it works with 1206 kernel.
But 2 things:
- totem consumes same amount of CPU for avi/divx and mkv/h264, and it
flips on 1920x1080;
- xvinfo reports active extension but return error for "image formats"
where I would expect YV12, YUY2, etc.

Regards,
Dmytro

[Dmytro F]

It works for me. I don't use GUI. From console no problem with HDMI
sound.

[Mitnick]

awesome!

> You can report issues on Launchpad directly, usehttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-omap4-extras-multimediaorhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-omap4-extras-graphics. We will push

> updates for bug fixes in the PPA, so make sure to keep your
> system up-to-date!
>
> If someone wants to volunteer to give our wiki (http://omappedia.org/wiki/OMAP_Ubuntu_Main) a little bit of love, please go
> ahead and update with the latest references, otherwise we will try to do it
> in the coming days/weeks.
>
> Next steps for us are:

>  - migration to rpmsg driver (aka syslink3, seehttp://lwn.net/Articles/448562/)