[Buildroot] [PATCH] Add HW decoding support for Hantro x170

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 28/05/2013 14:02, Simon Dawson wrote:
> Indeed, this is true. I spent some time trying to get this hardware
> decoder to work, and never managed to get anywhere with it. Atmel
> technical support were incredibly frustrating, providing such pearls
> of wisdom as:
>
> "We found that there might be a little problem if you we use dynamic
> libraries like cannot play video correctly. Our OS experts are still
> working on this."
>
> On the basis of this and other information provided by Atmel, I ended
> up using the static libraries. This complicates the package makefiles
> somewhat, of course; but you can presumably then avoid the restriction
> to glibc.

That's a nice idea, I doubt on2-8170-libs would ever be used without the
gstreamer plugin.

> Alexandre: have you actually managed to get the decoder to work?

It has been working but I don't remember all the specific. That is
something I did quickly for a customer having to create a demo for an
exhibition so the buildroot integration was not really in the scope.

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