[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Display blanking prevention for maemo (Nokia 770/N800)

[Siarhei Siamashka]

On Tuesday 22 May 2007 13:15, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> > Now we only need to wait until it gets fixed, which may never happen for
> > Nokia 770 as it is an older device and has no official updates planned.
> > N800 may have some hope anyway.
>
> If it is opensource you can just replace the x11 driver, hopefully (if
> isn't this the case I'd be quite disappointed)

Yes, it is possible to replace xserver. But it is difficult to deploy this
solution to the end users and make sure that they all get it installed.
It all involves all the troubles of effectively maintaining a distro which is
a bit out of my scope.

There is some work in this direction, but I don't hold my breath:
http://os2007on770.garage.maemo.org/

> > So no matter how bad my blanking prevention patch looks, using it is
> > still unavoidable for any maemo builds of mplayer. I don't insist on its
> > inclusion into official mplayer source tree though :)
>
> Well as I said the framebuffer code is more than welcome ^^;

Sure, but it depends on ARM optimized scaler which needs to be added
to ffmpeg/libswscale first. And this scaler needs a bit more work to get it
clean, reliable and well commented (in other words, ready for submitting 
to ffmpeg). Also some more optimizations still can be done.