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Signed-off-by: Vincent Davis Jr <[email protected]>
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EasyIP2023 authored and agherzan committed Sep 4, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -487,14 +487,15 @@ MMAL is not enabled by default. To enable it add

DISABLE_VC4GRAPHICS = "1"

to `local.conf`. Adding `vlc` to `IMAGE_INSTALL` will then default to building the Raspberry
Pi's Distro implementation of VLC with HW accelerated video decode through MMAL into the system
image. It also defaults to building VLC with Raspberry PI's Distro implementation of ffmpeg. The
oe-core implementation of ffmpeg and the meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia implementation of VLC
can however be selected via:

PREFERRED_PROVIDER_ffmpeg = "ffmpeg"
PREFERRED_PROVIDER_vlc = "vlc"
to `local.conf`. Adding `vlc` to `IMAGE_INSTALL` will then default to building the oe-core
implementation of ffmpeg and the meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia implementation of VLC.
The Raspberry Pi's Distro implementation of VLC with HW accelerated video decode through
MMAL and the Raspberry PI's Distro implementation of ffmpeg. Can however be selected via:

PREFERRED_PROVIDER_vlc = "rpidistro-vlc"
PREFERRED_PROVIDER_ffmpeg = "rpidistro-ffmpeg"
PREFERRED_PROVIDER_libav = "rpidistro-ffmpeg"
PREFERRED_PROVIDER_libpostproc = "rpidistro-ffmpeg"

Usage example: Start VLC with mmal_vout plugin and without an active display server.

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