After noting the success of the XBMC team in getting high-quality video playback on the Raspberry Pi, I tried to see what was currently possible with the latest version of the APC kernel..\u00a0\u00a0 Sadly, the XBMC player is only available for the proprietary Pi Broadcom chipset..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I did try installing the binary-only Android APC player, but it was – as I expected – not compatible with the compiled kernel or Fedora 13..<\/p>\n
I installed GCC and the associated compiler components, and managed to (natively) compile the x264<\/strong> library, and also mplayer<\/strong>.\u00a0 Xine<\/strong> (a real blast from the past!) was already available in rpm format, but failed to work, as it could not find the right codecs (not surprisingly..)<\/p>\n After changing some permissions, and group membership (‘video’ and ‘audio’ groups) I did get mplayer to play a small mp4 file, but it was very<\/span> sluggish..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The framebuffer output takes over the entire screen, which is not ideal, and I need to find a way of changing this..<\/p>\n Next, I am going to try changing the user\/kernel memory allocations in the kernel.\u00a0\u00a0 Currently set to ‘3G\/1G’ user\/kernel, but I will try reversing this, to see what effect it has..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After noting the success of the XBMC team in getting high-quality video playback on the Raspberry Pi, I tried to see what was currently possible with the latest version of the APC kernel..\u00a0\u00a0 Sadly, the XBMC player is only available for the proprietary Pi Broadcom chipset..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I did try installing the binary-only Android APC player, but it …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,10,11,14,16,19,20,24],"tags":[89,122,266,340,397,428],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apc","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-fedora","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-arm","category-opinion","category-performance-2","category-video","tag-apc-2","tag-compiled","tag-mplayer","tag-sluggish","tag-video-playback","tag-xine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}