Vmeta

vMeta is a hardware-accelerated multimedia encoding and decoding engine included in the XO-1.75 and XO-4.

Installation and test

Tested on 12.1.0 on XO-1.75.

1. Install gstreamer-plugins-marvell and libvmeta-marvell
2. Download http://techslides.com/demos/sample-videos/small.mp4 and play it in Totem in GNOME

Note that these packages do include software decoders too (not sure why) so just seeing the video play back doesn't mean that it is being done by the vmeta hardware engine. The best way to be confident that hardware accel is being used is by looking at totem standard output, which should be limited to:

vmetadec istance(0x....) found
At finalizing, Gstvmetadec instance(0x....) DecErroOccured is 0x0
Gstvmetadec instance(0x....) is finalized.

Also look in dmesg, check that there are not any vmeta-related complaints there.

Troubleshooting

Hangs after displaying first frame

Check that regular audio playback is working (e.g. with speaker-test).