From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:64234 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751335Ab1BZP0e (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:26:34 -0500 Received: by wwb22 with SMTP id 22so1494403wwb.1 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:26:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera From: Edward Hervey To: Discussion of the development of and with GStreamer Cc: Felipe Contreras , "linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org" , Harald Gustafsson , Robert Fekete , Laurent Pinchart , "Clark, Rob" , ST-Ericsson LT Mailing List , linux-media@vger.kernel.org Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:26:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: <201102261447.04378.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> References: <201102241427.10988.laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> <201102261447.04378.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1298733988.2449.4.camel@deumeu> Mime-Version: 1.0 List-ID: Sender: On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 14:47 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Saturday, February 26, 2011 14:38:50 Felipe Contreras wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Laurent Pinchart > > wrote: > > >> > Perhaps GStreamer experts would like to comment on the future plans ahead > > >> > for zero copying/IPC and low power HW use cases? Could Gstreamer adapt > > >> > some ideas from OMX IL making OMX IL obsolete? > > >> > > >> perhaps OMX should adapt some of the ideas from GStreamer ;-) > > > > > > I'd very much like to see GStreamer (or something else, maybe lower level, but > > > community-maintainted) replace OMX. > > > > Yes, it would be great to have something that wraps all the hardware > > acceleration and could have support for software codecs too, all in a > > standard interface. It would also be great if this interface would be > > used in the upper layers like GStreamer, VLC, etc. Kind of what OMX > > was supposed to be, but open [1]. > > > > Oh wait, I'm describing FFmpeg :) (supports vl42, VA-API, VDPAU, > > DirectX, and soon OMAP3 DSP) > > > > Cheers. > > > > [1] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/GstOpenMAX?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=gst-openmax.png > > > > > > Are there any gstreamer/linaro/etc core developers attending the ELC in San Francisco > in April? I think it might be useful to get together before, during or after the > conference and see if we can turn this discussion in something more concrete. > > It seems to me that there is an overall agreement of what should be done, but > that we are far from anything concrete. > I will be there and this was definitely a topic I intended to talk about. See you there. Edward > Regards, > > Hans >