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Comment on Accelerating in my pocket by kd8ikt

kd8ikt — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:35:14 +0000

anyone have an ipkg?

Comment on Moscow and how to not go there by Russian Visa

Russian Visa — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:18:53 +0000

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Comment on Accelerating in my pocket by xeros

xeros — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:40:42 +0000

balrog: do you plan to merge yours git branch into official mplayer repo in near future?
I’ve bought FR (but doesn’t have it yet) and I can’t test it yet but I think it shouldn’t make problems to the official branch as it’s another video output plugin and then it could be packaged in the OpenMoko package repos.

Comment on Panoramic photos revisited by Yuval Levy

Yuval Levy — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:40:55 +0000

Hi,
hugin, autopano and libpano are work in progress. what you describe sounds like the status more than a year ago. unfortunately there has been no official release, so the distros are not that up to date. And even if they were, for legal reasons they will not bundle autopano.

You can find state of the art information and tutorials on my blog at http://panospace.wordpress.com/

For Gentoo (which I understand is your distro) there is even a portage that mirrors closely development.

State of the art is:
- libpano13
- autopano-sift-c
- enblend-enfuse 3.1
- hugin 0.7beta5
and it is still work in progress.

build your own tools instead of using the distro ones - so that you can get native autopano-sift-c (a Google sponsored student is working on a patent-free control point generator)

no need to initially orient the shots in Gimp - just make sure rotational search is enabled in hugin’s preferences.

nice panorama. could use some alignement (i.e. setting vertical CPs on the edges of the buildings).

Comment on Accelerating in my pocket by balrog

balrog — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:58:20 +0000

Jason: EdorFaus is right I’m afraid - supporting any codec other than mpeg4 / H.263+ is only as easy as changing the hardware.

Witek: Xglamo is the real X for the glamo with Xv support. Xv is implemented in hardware in Xglamo, but as far as I know Xv in general doesn’t support any particular codec (yet?), only stuff like scalling and YUV->RGB. If you use mplayer with -vo xv, it should just work.

Comment on Accelerating in my pocket by Witek

Witek — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:05:30 +0000

what about writing real X driver with Xv support? It will be grate.

Comment on Accelerating in my pocket by kriss

kriss — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:27:04 +0000

You rock! :-)

Comment on Accelerating in my pocket by EdorFaus

EdorFaus — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:39:21 +0000

Jason, Fradeve: With the assumption that the Glamo does not already support Theora, I believe it is a very safe bet that adding Theora support to it is (practically) impossible, seeing as it is a completely different codec.

Note that this is when we are talking about the hardware decompression.

Using the Glamo for scaling and rotation while decompressing Theora on the CPU is a different matter, and should work in much the same way as for MPEG-4, which was suggested for concurrency reasons. As mentioned, however, this might run into bandwidth problems on the FR.

Additionally, I don’t know how CPU-intensive Theora is compared with MPEG-4, so this solution *might* be infeasible due to that.

Comment on Accelerating in my pocket by Fradeve

Fradeve — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:30:16 +0000

Simply I would to thank you for your work, really great! :D I add my interest for Theora codecs ad reported up by Jason…

Comment on Accelerating in my pocket by Jason

Jason — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:25:23 +0000

I am particularly interested in the support of Theora (http://www.theora.org/) in an attempt to avoid patent issues.

How easy/hard is adding support for an additional codec?