[mythtv-users] ESPN3/360 in Myth

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 22:42:03 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Scott D. Davilla <davilla at 4pi.com> wrote:
>> 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).

I had different results with youtube:

greg at ghost:/Media/ISO-Firmware$ lsmod | grep crystal
crystalhd              85225  0


Sep 16 17:39:38 ghost kernel: [22591.327765] crystalhd 0000:02:00.0:
Entering chd_dec_open
Sep 16 17:39:38 ghost kernel: [22591.327769] crystalhd 0000:02:00.0:
Opening new user[0] handle
Sep 16 17:39:38 ghost kernel: [22591.661019] crystalhd 0000:02:00.0:
Entering chd_dec_close
Sep 16 17:39:38 ghost kernel: [22591.661030] crystalhd 0000:02:00.0:
Closing user[0] handle
Sep 16 17:39:38 ghost kernel: [22591.661130] no element found

It clearly is recognized as a valid source, but quits immediately
before playback ever begins..  cpu spike to 60% as always with flash's
junk...

Shockwave Flash
Shockwave Flash 10.2 d161

Are you doing something different..  Im using chrome (dont have
firefox installed to test)..

-Greg


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