CedarX/VLC

VLC also known as "VideoLAN Client" player is a open-source cross-platform video player. For more info check the wikipedia.

VLC support for CedarX was added by Wills Wang. VLC support and especially this page is work in progress.

= Compilation =

In building tree, the default libvecore.so is armhf version, it come from here

If you use armel, you need replace it with this version

Build libcedarx at first, do: git clone https://github.com/willswang/libcedarx cd libcedarx ./autogen.sh ./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf/arm-linux-gnueabi --prefix= make make install

Build vlc with cedar support, do: apt-get build-dep vlc #only once, both target and host rootfs apt-get remove lua5.2 # may not be needed on your system, you must use lua 5.1 to build vlc git clone https://github.com/willswang/vlc cd vlc ./bootstrap ./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf/arm-linux-gnueabi --prefix= --enable-cedar make make install

If you dont want to cross-compile, remove --host, set prefix to /usr and compile on device, compilation time is around one and a half hours.

= Usage = Give everyone rights to use disp and CedarX chmod 777 /dev/disp chmod 777 /dev/cedar_dev Start vlc with command line interface: cvlc --demux ffmpeg --codec cedar --vout cedarfb --no-osd You can use standard cvlc hotkeys, but remember that there is no OSD support yet.

= Problems/TODO =
 * Is fb0_scaler_mode_enable/fb1_scaler_mode_enable needs to be disabled for cedarfb?
 * No output modules support apart from cedarfb which uses raw framebuffer access (not compatible with xf86-video-mali and any other driver/device that wants to write raw at the same moment).
 * No support for GUI of the VLC, only command line VLC is supported
 * 1080p and such movies with high bitrate sometimes buffer too slow and frames are dropping.
 * No support for OSD because of lack of YUV420