[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi] gles2 on raspi3

[Gary Thomas]

On 2017-04-20 18:55, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:13 AM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu 2017-04-20 @ 05:41:44 AM, Herve Jourdain wrote:
>>> Yes, VC4 indeed works for both 32bits and 64bits. It was first introduced  .
>>> for 32bits, actually Regarding why still using userland: at this point in  .
>>> time, we have accelerated HW codec (H.264, MPEG2, some audio) only if using.
>>> userland If one doesn't need that, then VC4 is, in my opinion, the way to  .
>>> go. Otherwise, userland still needs to be used                             .
>>
>> What decoder is needed to play youtube videos?
>>
>> Using Andreas' meta-raspi-light (which removes userland and only uses vc4)
>> I've spent the last hour or so watching youtube videos from my raspberrypi3
>> (32-bit build) in chromium, accelerated, with sound (both via the HDMI and the
>> jack), both on the big monitor and the 7" waveshare touchscreen. Not to
>> mention I can now run openGL and GLESx apps accelerated.
>>
>
> try to play 1080p video and you will see the difference. I use my pi3
> as media center using kodi, I am waiting for vc4 driver to get
> feature/performance parity with userland until then we have to keep
> using it atleast for media centric usecases.

Are you building kodi using meta-multimedia?  If so, could you share
your local.conf?

>
>> I wasn't able to do that with userland. In fact, it was quite a struggle just
>> to get it to build!
>>
>> Maybe I did something wrong with userland, but vc4 is successful, and
>> certainly easier to work with.

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