[meta-freescale] GStreamer VPU support on i.MX6

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-04-19 10:58, Daiane Angolini wrote:
> On 04/19/2013 01:52 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Daiane Angolini
>> <daiane.angolini at freescale.com> wrote:
>
>> The firmware is installed by packagegroup-base-core; adding a
>> dependency on this is not optimal IMO.
>
> I almost remember we have already discussed why firmware is not a dependency.
>
> I cannot remember what i understood.
>
> Why would I want to have gst-fsl-plugins installed WITHOUT the VPU firmware?

It gets you other pieces which don't need the VPU, e.g. the
special V4L2 drivers.

root at sabrelite:~# opkg files gst-fsl-plugin | sort
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_aacdec.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_aiur_demux.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_amrdec.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_audio_pp.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_beep.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_h264dec.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_mp3dec.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_mp3enc.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_mpeg2dec.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_mpeg4aspdec.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_v4lsink.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_v4lsrc.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_gst_vorbisdec.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libmfw_vpu.so

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