Saturday, March 19, 2016

Binaries for Hardware Accelerated Qt 5.6.0-rc1 Multimedia Backend on Raspbian Jessie Lite (POT 5.2.2)

This is a new build including a video probe to monitor frames being rendered. I also included a plugin to access video probe functionalities from QML. You can use it like this:

POT_VideoProbe {
   source: mediaPlayer
   onVideoFrameProbed: console.log("Frame probed!")
}

where mediaPlayer is an element of type MediaPlayer. Modifying the frame is not probably possible at the moment.
Have fun! Bye ;-)

Download PiOmxTextures 5.2.2 for Raspbian Jessie Pi2 here (extraction code is: 2bd6, md5:
   8be82eee7498e63e63ecbe17cb3eb7ef).

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Binaries for Hardware Accelerated Qt 5.6.0-rc1 Multimedia Backend on Raspbian Jessie Lite (POT 5.2.1)

This the same build provided in the firmware from the previous post. It includes a couple of fixes over 5.2.0 and the new Qt 5.6.0-rc1. Refer to this article for more information.
Please file issues on github if needed.
Bye! ;-)

Download PiOmxTextures 5.2.1 for Raspbian Jessie Pi2 here (extraction code is: 62c9, md5: 356e2004dfeb9017a482e2448750121e).

Fully Optimised Raspbian Jessie Lite with Accelerated Qt Multimedia Backend (Pi2)

This is a follow-up to the image provided in this article. The concept is identical, but in this case this firmware is smaller, it is based on Raspbian Jessie Lite and includes updated software. The firmware was 1.9GB while now is 759MB. This is the current setup (but I encourage to update to the latest possible firmware):

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ vcgencmd version
Feb 25 2016 14:25:47 
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version dea971b793dd6cf89133ede5a8362eb77e4f4ade (clean) (release)
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.1.18-v7+ #846 SMP Thu Feb 25 14:22:53 GMT 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux

Download the image here (torrent) (md5: 06d75d03f63674350be6cb807850bf09).
(Please be patient while downloading and decompressing)

The image includes:
  • Qt 5.6.0-rc1: built for armv7 with neon optimisations, including support for touch screens, gstreamer, libinput, tslib, and Bluetooth/Bluetooth BLE using bluez (complete configuration below).
  • QtWebKit 5.6.0: includes WebKit 1 and WebKit 2.
  • QtWebEngine 5.6.0-rc1: multimedia only based on ffmpeg.
  • Dependant libs: evdev, icu (not the one provided by raspbian), mtdev, libts.
  • Samples: samples from the repo to test POT.
  • POT: POT version 5.2.1 including ffmpeg 2.8.6.

Samples

To have a quick look at multimedia in Qt/QML test with this commands:
  • /usr/local/Qt-rasp2-5.6.0-rc1/bin/qmlscene "some_video_file" samples/video_simple.qml
  • /usr/local/Qt-rasp2-5.6.0-rc1/bin/qmlscene "some_url" samples/webkit_simple.qml
  • /usr/local/Qt-rasp2-5.6.0-rc1/bin/qmlscene "some_url" samples/webengine_simple.qml
  • /home/pi/piomxtextures_pocplayer --multipleanimtest "720p_video_1" "720p_video_2"
Please let me know if you find something wrong and file a bugreport on https://github.com/carlonluca/pi.
Have fun! ;-)