[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer port to Blackberry (Storm, Javelin and Bold).

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:22:08PM -0400, Dennis Perov wrote:
> I have a question: what would it approximately take to port MPlayer to
> RIM Blackberry devices? We are a small private company, and would like
> to have the a player that can play H.264 (main) over RTSP on
> Blackberry devices, preferably branded as "Foobar player, powered by
> MPlayer". A couple of RIM devices with WiFi access can be provided for
> testing and porting, as well as other resources. Please consider it if
> you have time to finish it.

Ideally you should be trying it, after all you probably either already know
how to develop for it or need to learn it anyway.
Also we don't know what you need, there are such and such kinds of "porting".
If you can build stuff for the RIM device with a proper, up-to-date GNU
toolchain and a POSIX-compatible environment, MPlayer should already compile
for it, so it would already work on it.
If the OS is 100% proprietary and not POSIX it will be much more work though
and I doubt you will find anyone working on it in their free time (though
I may be biased since for me "proprietary API" always makes me think of the
horrible mess that is Win32).
That might not match your definition of "work", it probably will be slow (no
idea which CPU those devices have, if it's not an ARM with NEON support it's
probably extremely slow - you need optimized assembler code to fix that).
It would probably also only write the decoded data to disk or a FIFO. Depending
on what kind of frontend you want that might be exactly what you want or not.
I for one can only say that I neither know what you need from MPlayer nor
do I know anything about programming for Blackberry devices, so I obviously
can't tell what kind of effort it would be.