[Raspbian-devel] Building the Debian XBMC package on Raspbian

[Andrei POPESCU]

On Lu, 10 sep 12, 20:27:01, peter green wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >However, I'm looking into making as few changes as possible to the
> >official Debian package, to hopefully get the changes accepted by
> >the Debian Maintainer, so that the next package will recompile on
> >Raspbian without changes, even if not perfectly optimized.
> IMO There is no point in this until/unless someone puts together a
> system that
> allows use of the videocore for decoding without creating either a build
> dependencya hard dependency or a hard runtime dependency on the videocore
> libraries. Afaict on CPUs as weak as the arm11 software decoding of video
> is basically a nonstarter and a media center without usable video decode
> doesn't seem much use to me.

I don't expect it to be able to smoothly play 1080p video, but maybe it 
will still be usable by making use of OpenMAX.
 
> And if an xbmc package does have a hard dependency on the videocore
> libraries then it should have a new package name to distinguish it from
> the generic debian package.

I agree.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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