| 16:54 | bartolo | hi, there is some trick to run xbmc on the cubox? If I start it from debian i get this error "CApplication::Create: Unable to init windowing system" |
| 16:54 | bartolo | i've tried to update to linux 3.19 but it still doesn't work |
| 16:55 | bartolo | it also say "ERROR: unable to create GUI" |
| 17:43 | Catwich | bartolo: you compiled xbmc from source? |
| 17:43 | Catwich | and yes, there are many tricks |
| 17:45 | bartolo | no xbmc it's the official one from the debian repos |
| 17:46 | Catwich | well |
| 17:46 | Catwich | known not to work |
| 17:46 | Catwich | if that helps you |
| 17:46 | Catwich | in general though, you need xbmc built against the vivante GL libraries |
| 17:46 | bartolo | uhm i have to use a recent kodi build? |
| 17:47 | Catwich | make it use GLES |
| 17:47 | Catwich | and you may want to build against libvpu too |
| 17:47 | Catwich | not to forget using a kernel that has the vivante driver |
| 17:49 | bartolo | uff I was hoping to avoid the same mess of the raspberry :( |
| 17:52 | Catwich | I am working on a package |
| 17:52 | Catwich | on the other hand, xbian has xbmc |
| 17:52 | Catwich | one important problem I am facing right now though, is that the vpu-support does not work on x11 yet |
| 17:52 | Catwich | so it makes sense to run kodi on framebuffer only, right now |
| 17:54 | bartolo | I was hoping that the vivante stuff was just for 3d stuff |
| 17:55 | Catwich | it is |
| 17:55 | Catwich | sort of |
| 17:55 | Catwich | but vivante provides an extension to EGL that allows fast copy of decoded frames to the screen |
| 17:55 | Catwich | actually, its not copied at all I think |
| 17:58 | bartolo | it's too slow as it is to play 720p videos or dvds? |
| 17:58 | bartolo | i can give away the ability to play >720p videos if I can avoid the blobs :p |
| 17:59 | Catwich | I am not sure about 720p |
| 17:59 | Catwich | lower should work okay |
| 18:00 | Catwich | but you need to try it out |
| 18:07 | bartolo | ok thanks |