[mythtv-users] ESPN3/360 in Myth

Scott D. Davilla davilla at 4pi.com
Thu Sep 16 22:36:15 UTC 2010


>On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>>  On Monday, September 06, 2010 11:45:32 am Tyler T wrote:
>>>  > We'd all like to see accelerated flash decoding, but I don;t expect it
>>>  > anytime soon, if ever.
>>>
>>>  It is already supported under Windows, actually. Unfortunately,
>>>  if/when Adobe will support it under Linux is anybody's guess.
>>>
>>>  "Broadcom hardware decoding of H.264 video in Flash Player 10.1 is
>>>  supported on the Broadcom BCM70012 as well as the BCM70015 video
>>>  decoding chipsets, found in systems with Broadcom Crystal HD Enhanced
>>>  Video Accelerator hardware." --
>>>  http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/systemreqs/
>>
>>  "decoding of H.264 video in Flash Player 10.1" would seem to be 
>>simply adding functionality to the Flash player. The
>>  Crystal HD can of course decode h264, the problem is flash.
>>
>>  It still isn't a hardware decoding for flash, it's just adding 
>>something to the player, and more or less admitting that
>>  flash stinks.
>
>I have yet to actually try it out myself, but Scott just pointed this
>out for the 10.2 flash player beta Adobe just posted:
>
>http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
>
>Skunkworks:chd-test files davilla$ strings
>/Users/davilla/Downloads/libflashplayer.so | grep libcrystalhd
>libcrystalhd.so

And it works too :)

Both YouTube and Hulu Desktop get accelerated video decode with the 
CrystalHD card (both bcm70012 and bcm70015).



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