Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a raspberry pi with omxplayer

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On 31/12/12 15:02, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:35:36 +0800
> William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
>>> If your intent is to learn something by all means proceed (you will
>>> learn, and lots of it :-). But if you are looking for something to
>>> use that works, it's probably only fair you know up front the odds
>>> of success are not good.
>>>
...

>> mpeg2 playback?
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> If it does what you need, then by all means fire away. If nothing else,
> the learning experience will be worth it.
> 
> I don't have a purchased mpeg-2 license, so can't comment on that. All
> my content is transcoded to h.264 in mp4 containers, or good old .avi
> 

Some numbers ... 1440x1080 off air mpeg2 recording via mythtv served
over nfs.

OMXplayer on framebuffer using the licenced hw decoding uses 20% and
load is just under .5

I need to test divx for some movies Ive previously transcoded but the
majority will be mpeg2 from myth.

Lessons learnt!:

Wasted "forever" compiling X and ratpoison only to find they are not
needed as omxplayer does fine on framebuffer

ext4 sucks (I dont know why I always start with the "recommended ext4"
as all the guides suggest, only to find it sucks and I lose data etc ...
in future start with reiserfs or maybe btrfs and forget the stone age.

Once I got it stable I synced portage and started compiling ffmpeg ...
ran out of inodes.  So Ive now got portage over nfs but ext4 has gotta
go (yes, I know I can reinstall with more inodes, but why go with it
when there is better).  Maybe someone can suggest something?

omxplayer needs some work as I have only minimal control from a keyboard
(basicly "q" for quit :)

BillK