4.1. Sub-system Demos

4.1.1. Power Management

Overview

This page is the top level page for support of Power Management topics related to Sitara devices.

Please follow the appropriate link below to find information specific to your device.

Supported Devices

AM335x Power Management User Guide

  • Note: BeagleBone users click here.

4.1.2. ARM Multimedia Users Guide

Overview


Multimedia codecs on ARM based platforms could be optimised for better performance using the tightly coupled **Neon** co-processor. Neon architecture works with its own independent pipeline and register file. Neon technology is a 128 bit SIMD architecture extension for ARM Cortex-A series processors. It is designed to provide acceleration for multimedia applications.

Supported Platforms

  • AM37x

  • Beagleboard-xM

  • AM35x

  • AM335x EVM

  • AM437x GP EVM

  • AM57xx GP EVM

Multimedia on AM57xx Processor

On AM57xx processor, ARM offloads H.264, VC1, MPEG-4, MPEG-2 and MJPEG codecs processing to IVA-HD hardware accelerator. Please refer to AM57xx Multimedia Training guide to learn more on AM57xx multimedia capabilities, demos, software stack, gstreamer plugins and pipelines. Also refer to AM57xx Graphics Display Getting Started Guide to learn on AM57xx graphics software architecture, demos, tools and display applications.

Multimedia on Cortex-A8

Cortex-A8 Features and Benefits

  • Support ARM v7 with Advanced SIMD (NEON)

  • Support hierarchical cache memory

  • Up to 1 MB L2 cache

  • Up to 128-bit memory bandwidth

  • 13-stage pipeline and enhanced branch prediction engine

  • Dual-issue of instructions

Neon Features and Benefits

  • Independent HW block to support advanced SIMD instructions

  • Comprehensive instruction set with support of 8, 16 & 32-bit signed & unsigned data types

  • 256 byte register file (dual 32x64/16x128 view) with hybrid 32/64/128 bit modes

  • Large register files enables efficient data handling and minimizes access to memory, thus enhancing data throughput

  • Processor can sleep sooner which leads to an overall dynamic power saving

  • Independent 10-stage pipeline

  • Dual-issue of limited instruction pairs

  • Significant code size reduction

Neon support on opensource community

NEON is currently supported in the following Open Source projects.


  • ffmpeg/libav

    • LGPL media player used in many Linux distros

    • NEON Video: MPEG-4 ASP, H.264 (AVC), VC-1, VP3, Theora

    • NEON Audio: AAC, Vorbis, WMA

  • x264 –Google Summer Of Code 2009

    • GPL H.264 encoder –e.g. for video conferencing

  • Bluez –official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack

    • NEON sbc audio encoder

  • Pixman (part of cairo 2D graphics library)

    • Compositing/alpha blending

    • X.Org, Mozilla Firefox, fennec, & Webkit browsers

    • e.g. fbCompositeSolidMask_nx8x0565neon 8xfaster using NEON

  • Ubuntu 09.04 & 09.10 –fully supports NEON

    • NEON versions of critical shared-libraries

  • Android –NEON optimizations

    • Skia library, S32A_D565_Opaque 5xfaster using NEON

    • Available in Google Skia tree from 03-Aug-2009

For additional details, please refer the **NEON - ARM website**.

SDK Example Applications

This application can be executed by selecting the “Multimedia” icon at the top-level matrix.

NOTE

The very first GStreamer launch takes some time to initialize outputs or set up decoders.


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Codec portfolio

Processor SDK includes ARM based multimedia using opensource GPLv2+ FFmpeg/Libav codecs, the codec portfolio includes MPEG-4, H.264 for video in VGA/WQVGA/480p resolution and AAC codec for audio. Codec portforlio for Processor SDK on AM57xx device is listed here

The script file to launch multimedia demo detects the display enabled and accordingly decodes VGA or 480p video. In AM37x platform VGA clip is decoded when LCD is enabled and 480p is decoded when DVI out is enabled. Scripts in “Settings” menu can be used to switch between these two displays.

MPEG4 + AAC Decode

MPEG-4 + AAC Dec example application demonstrates use of MPEG-4 video and AAC audio codec as mentioned in the description page below.


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The multimedia pipeline is constructed using gst-launch, GStreamer elements such as qtdemux is used for demuxing AV content. Parsers are elements with single source pad and can be used to cut streams into buffers, they do not modify the data otherwise.

gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=$filename ! qtdemux name=demux demux.audio_00 ! queue ! ffdec_aac ! alsasink sync=false demux.video_00 ! queue ! ffdec_mpeg4 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! fbdevsink device=/dev/fb0

“filename” is defined based on the selected display device which could be LCD of DVI.

MPEG4 Decode

MPEG-4 decode example application demonstrates use of MPEG-4 video codec as mentioned in the description page below.


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gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=$filename ! mpeg4videoparse ! ffdec_mpeg4 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! fbdevsink device=/dev/fb0

H.264 Decode

H.264 decode example application demonstrates use of H.264 video codec as mentioned in the description page below.


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gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=$filename ! h264parse ! ffdec_h264 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! fbdevsink device=/dev/fb0

AAC Decode

AAC decode example application demonstrates use of AAC video codec as mentioned in the description page below.


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gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=$filename ! aacparse ! faad ! alsasink

Streaming

Audio/Video data can be streamed from a server using souphttpsrc. For example to stream audio content, if you set-up an apache server on your host machine you can stream the audio file HistoryOfTI.aac located in the files directory using the pipeline

gst-launch souphttpsrc location=http://<ip address>/files/HistoryOfTI.aac ! aacparse ! faad ! alsasink

Multimedia Peripheral Examples

Examples of how to use several different multimedia peripherals can be found on the ARM Multimedia Peripheral Examples page.


SDK Multimedia Framework

Multimedia framework for cortex-a8 SDK will leverage GStreamer multimedia stack with gst-ffmpeg plug-in’s to support GPLv2+ FFmpeg/libav library code.

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gst-launch is used to build and run basic multimedia pieplines to demonstrate audio/avideo decoding examples.

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GStreamer

  • Multimedia processing library

  • Provides uniform framework across platforms

  • Includes parsing & A/V sync support

  • Modular with flexibility to add new functionality via plugins

  • Easy bindings to other frameworks

Some of the build dependencies for GStreamer are shown here:

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Open Source FFmpeg Codecs

**FFmpeg** is an open source project which provides a cross platform multimedia solution.

  • Free audio and video decoder/encoder code licensed under GPLv2+ (GPLv3 licensed codecs can be build separately)

  • A comprehensive suite of standard compliant multimedia codecs

- Audio
- Video
- Image
- Speech
  • Codec software package

  • Codec libraries with standard C based API

  • Audio/Video parsers that support popular multimedia content

  • Use of SIMD/NEON instructions **cortex-A8 neon architecture**

  • Neon provides 1.6x-2.5x performance on complex video codecs

Multimedia Neon Benchmark

Test Parameters:

  • Sep 21 2009 snapshot of gst-ffmpeg.org

  • Real silicon measurements on Omap3 Beagleboard

Resolution

480x270

Frame Rate

30fps

Audio

44.1KHz

Video Codec

H.264

Audio Codec

AAC

  • Benchmarks released by ARM demonstrating an overall performance improvement of ~2x.

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FFmpeg Codecs List

FFmpeg Codec Licensing

FFmpeg libraries include LGPL, GPLv2, GPLv3 and other license based codecs, enabling GPLv3 codecs subjects the entire framework to GPLv3 license. In the Sitara SDK GPLv2+ licensed codecs are enabled. Enabling Additional details of **legal and license** of these codecs can be found on the FFmpeg/libav webpage.

GPLv2+ codecs list

Codec

Description

ffenc_a64multi

FFmpeg Multicolor charset for Commodore 64 encoder

ffenc_a64multi5

FFmpeg Multicolor charset for Commodore 64, extended with 5th color (colram) encoder

ffenc_asv1

FFmpeg ASUS V1 encoder

ffenc_asv2

FFmpeg ASUS V2 encoder

ffenc_bmp

FFmpeg BMP image encoder

ffenc_dnxhd

FFmpeg VC3/DNxHD encoder

ffenc_dvvideo

FFmpeg DV (Digital Video) encoder

ffenc_ffv1

FFmpeg FFmpeg video codec #1 encoder

ffenc_ffvhuff

FFmpeg Huffyuv FFmpeg variant encoder

ffenc_flashsv

FFmpeg Flash Screen Video encoder

ffenc_flv

FFmpeg Flash Video (FLV) / Sorenson Spark / Sorenson H.263 encoder

ffenc_h261

FFmpeg H.261 encoder

ffenc_h263

FFmpeg H.263 / H.263-1996 encoder

ffenc_h263p

FFmpeg H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2 encoder

ffenc_huffyuv

FFmpeg Huffyuv / HuffYUV encoder

ffenc_jpegls

FFmpeg JPEG-LS encoder

ffenc_ljpeg

FFmpeg Lossless JPEG encoder

ffenc_mjpeg

FFmpeg MJPEG (Motion JPEG) encoder

ffenc_mpeg1video

FFmpeg MPEG-1 video encoder

ffenc_mpeg4

FFmpeg MPEG-4 part 2 encoder

ffenc_msmpeg4v1

FFmpeg MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 1 encoder

ffenc_msmpeg4v2

FFmpeg MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 2 encoder

ffenc_msmpeg4

FFmpeg MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 3 encoder

ffenc_pam

FFmpeg PAM (Portable AnyMap) image encoder

ffenc_pbm

FFmpeg PBM (Portable BitMap) image encoder

ffenc_pcx

FFmpeg PC Paintbrush PCX image encoder

ffenc_pgm

FFmpeg PGM (Portable GrayMap) image encoder

ffenc_pgmyuv

FFmpeg PGMYUV (Portable GrayMap YUV) image encoder

ffenc_png

FFmpeg PNG image encoder

ffenc_ppm

FFmpeg PPM (Portable PixelMap) image encoder

ffenc_qtrle

FFmpeg QuickTime Animation (RLE) video encoder

ffenc_roqvideo

FFmpeg id RoQ video encoder

ffenc_rv10

FFmpeg RealVideo 1.0 encoder

ffenc_rv20

FFmpeg RealVideo 2.0 encoder

ffenc_sgi

FFmpeg SGI image encoder

ffenc_snow

FFmpeg Snow encoder

ffenc_svq1

FFmpeg Sorenson Vector Quantizer 1 / Sorenson Video 1 / SVQ1 encoder

ffenc_targa

FFmpeg Truevision Targa image encoder

ffenc_tiff

FFmpeg TIFF image encoder

ffenc_wmv1

FFmpeg Windows Media Video 7 encoder

ffenc_wmv2

FFmpeg Windows Media Video 8 encoder

ffenc_zmbv

FFmpeg Zip Motion Blocks Video encoder

ffenc_aac

FFmpeg Advanced Audio Coding encoder

ffenc_ac3

FFmpeg ATSC A/52A (AC-3) encoder

ffenc_alac

FFmpeg ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) encoder

ffenc_mp2

FFmpeg MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2) encoder

ffenc_nellymoser

FFmpeg Nellymoser Asao encoder

ffenc_real_144

FFmpeg RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K) encoder encoder

ffenc_sonic

FFmpeg Sonic encoder

ffenc_sonicls

FFmpeg Sonic lossless encoder

ffenc_wmav1

FFmpeg Windows Media Audio 1 encoder

ffenc_wmav2

FFmpeg Windows Media Audio 2 encoder

ffenc_roq_dpcm

FFmpeg id RoQ DPCM encoder

ffenc_adpcm_adx

FFmpeg SEGA CRI ADX ADPCM encoder

ffenc_g722

FFmpeg G.722 ADPCM encoder

ffenc_g726

FFmpeg G.726 ADPCM encoder

ffenc_adpcm_ima_qt

FFmpeg ADPCM IMA QuickTime encoder

ffenc_adpcm_ima_wav

FFmpeg ADPCM IMA WAV encoder

ffenc_adpcm_ms

FFmpeg ADPCM Microsoft encoder

ffenc_adpcm_swf

FFmpeg ADPCM Shockwave Flash encoder

ffenc_adpcm_yamaha

FFmpeg ADPCM Yamaha encoder

ffenc_ass

FFmpeg Advanced SubStation Alpha subtitle encoder

ffenc_dvbsub

FFmpeg DVB subtitles encoder

ffenc_dvdsub

FFmpeg DVD subtitles encoder

ffenc_xsub

FFmpeg DivX subtitles (XSUB) encoder

ffdec_aasc

FFmpeg Autodesk RLE decoder

ffdec_amv

FFmpeg AMV Video decoder

ffdec_anm

FFmpeg Deluxe Paint Animation decoder

ffdec_ansi

FFmpeg ASCII/ANSI art decoder

ffdec_asv1

FFmpeg ASUS V1 decoder

ffdec_asv2

FFmpeg ASUS V2 decoder

ffdec_aura

FFmpeg Auravision AURA decoder

ffdec_aura2

FFmpeg Auravision Aura 2 decoder

ffdec_avs

FFmpeg AVS (Audio Video Standard) video decoder

ffdec_bethsoftvid

FFmpeg Bethesda VID video decoder

ffdec_bfi

FFmpeg Brute Force & Ignorance decoder

ffdec_binkvideo

FFmpeg Bink video decoder

ffdec_bmp

FFmpeg BMP image decoder

ffdec_c93

FFmpeg Interplay C93 decoder

ffdec_cavs

FFmpeg Chinese AVS video (AVS1-P2, JiZhun profile) decoder

ffdec_cdgraphics

FFmpeg CD Graphics video decoder

ffdec_cinepak

FFmpeg Cinepak decoder

ffdec_cljr

FFmpeg Cirrus Logic AccuPak decoder

ffdec_camstudio

FFmpeg CamStudio decoder

ffdec_cyuv

FFmpeg Creative YUV (CYUV) decoder

ffdec_dnxhd

FFmpeg VC3/DNxHD decoder

ffdec_dpx

FFmpeg DPX image decoder

ffdec_dsicinvideo

FFmpeg Delphine Software International CIN video decoder

ffdec_dvvideo

FFmpeg DV (Digital Video) decoder

ffdec_dxa

FFmpeg Feeble Files/ScummVM DXA decoder

ffdec_eacmv

FFmpeg Electronic Arts CMV video decoder

ffdec_eamad

FFmpeg Electronic Arts Madcow Video decoder

ffdec_eatgq

FFmpeg Electronic Arts TGQ video decoder

ffdec_eatgv

FFmpeg Electronic Arts TGV video decoder

ffdec_eatqi

FFmpeg Electronic Arts TQI Video decoder

ffdec_8bps

FFmpeg QuickTime 8BPS video decoder

ffdec_8svx_exp

FFmpeg 8SVX exponential decoder

ffdec_8svx_fib

FFmpeg 8SVX fibonacci decoder

ffdec_escape124

FFmpeg Escape 124 decoder

ffdec_ffv1

FFmpeg FFmpeg video codec #1 decoder

ffdec_ffvhuff

FFmpeg Huffyuv FFmpeg variant decoder

ffdec_flashsv

FFmpeg Flash Screen Video v1 decoder

ffdec_flic

FFmpeg Autodesk Animator Flic video decoder

ffdec_flv

FFmpeg Flash Video (FLV) / Sorenson Spark / Sorenson H.263 decoder

ffdec_4xm

FFmpeg 4X Movie decoder

ffdec_fraps

FFmpeg Fraps decoder

ffdec_FRWU

FFmpeg Forward Uncompressed decoder

ffdec_h261

FFmpeg H.261 decoder

ffdec_h263

FFmpeg H.263 / H.263-1996, H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2 decoder

ffdec_h263i

FFmpeg Intel H.263 decoder

ffdec_h264

FFmpeg H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 decoder

ffdec_huffyuv

FFmpeg Huffyuv / HuffYUV decoder

ffdec_idcinvideo

FFmpeg id Quake II CIN video decoder

ffdec_iff_byterun1

FFmpeg IFF ByteRun1 decoder

ffdec_iff_ilbm

FFmpeg IFF ILBM decoder

ffdec_indeo2

FFmpeg Intel Indeo 2 decoder

ffdec_indeo3

FFmpeg Intel Indeo 3 decoder

ffdec_indeo5

FFmpeg Intel Indeo Video Interactive 5 decoder

ffdec_interplayvideo

FFmpeg Interplay MVE video decoder

ffdec_jpegls

FFmpeg JPEG-LS decoder

ffdec_kgv1

FFmpeg Kega Game Video decoder

ffdec_kmvc

FFmpeg Karl Morton’s video codec decoder

ffdec_loco

FFmpeg LOCO decoder

ffdec_mdec

FFmpeg Sony PlayStation MDEC (Motion DECoder) decoder

ffdec_mimic

FFmpeg Mimic decoder

ffdec_mjpeg

FFmpeg MJPEG (Motion JPEG) decoder

ffdec_mjpegb

FFmpeg Apple MJPEG-B decoder

ffdec_mmvideo

FFmpeg American Laser Games MM Video decoder

ffdec_motionpixels

FFmpeg Motion Pixels video decoder

ffdec_mpeg4

FFmpeg MPEG-4 part 2 decoder

ffdec_mpegvideo

FFmpeg MPEG-1 video decoder

ffdec_msmpeg4v1

FFmpeg MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 1 decoder

ffdec_msmpeg4v2

FFmpeg MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 2 decoder

ffdec_msmpeg4

FFmpeg MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 3 decoder

ffdec_msrle

FFmpeg Microsoft RLE decoder

ffdec_msvideo1

FFmpeg Microsoft Video 1 decoder

ffdec_mszh

FFmpeg LCL (LossLess Codec Library) MSZH decoder

ffdec_nuv

FFmpeg NuppelVideo/RTJPEG decoder

ffdec_pam

FFmpeg PAM (Portable AnyMap) image decoder

ffdec_pbm

FFmpeg PBM (Portable BitMap) image decoder

ffdec_pcx

FFmpeg PC Paintbrush PCX image decoder

ffdec_pgm

FFmpeg PGM (Portable GrayMap) image decoder

ffdec_pgmyuv

FFmpeg PGMYUV (Portable GrayMap YUV) image decoder

ffdec_pictor

FFmpeg Pictor/PC Paint decoder

ffdec_png

FFmpeg PNG image decoder

ffdec_ppm

FFmpeg PPM (Portable PixelMap) image decoder

ffdec_ptx

FFmpeg V.Flash PTX image decoder

ffdec_qdraw

FFmpeg Apple QuickDraw decoder

ffdec_qpeg

FFmpeg Q-team QPEG decoder

ffdec_qtrle

FFmpeg QuickTime Animation (RLE) video decoder

ffdec_r10k

FFmpeg AJA Kona 10-bit RGB Codec decoder

ffdec_rl2

FFmpeg RL2 video decoder

ffdec_roqvideo

FFmpeg id RoQ video decoder

ffdec_rpza

FFmpeg QuickTime video (RPZA) decoder

ffdec_rv10

FFmpeg RealVideo 1.0 decoder

ffdec_rv20

FFmpeg RealVideo 2.0 decoder

ffdec_rv30

FFmpeg RealVideo 3.0 decoder

ffdec_rv40

FFmpeg RealVideo 4.0 decoder

ffdec_sgi

FFmpeg SGI image decoder

ffdec_smackvid

FFmpeg Smacker video decoder

ffdec_smc

FFmpeg QuickTime Graphics (SMC) decoder

ffdec_snow

FFmpeg Snow decoder

ffdec_sp5x

FFmpeg Sunplus JPEG (SP5X) decoder

ffdec_sunrast

FFmpeg Sun Rasterfile image decoder

ffdec_svq1

FFmpeg Sorenson Vector Quantizer 1 / Sorenson Video 1 / SVQ1 decoder

ffdec_svq3

FFmpeg Sorenson Vector Quantizer 3 / Sorenson Video 3 / SVQ3 decoder

ffdec_targa

FFmpeg Truevision Targa image decoder

ffdec_thp

FFmpeg Nintendo Gamecube THP video decoder

ffdec_tiertexseqvideo

FFmpeg Tiertex Limited SEQ video decoder

ffdec_tiff

FFmpeg TIFF image decoder

ffdec_tmv

FFmpeg 8088flex TMV decoder

ffdec_truemotion1

FFmpeg Duck TrueMotion 1.0 decoder

ffdec_truemotion2

FFmpeg Duck TrueMotion 2.0 decoder

ffdec_camtasia

FFmpeg TechSmith Screen Capture Codec decoder

ffdec_txd

FFmpeg Renderware TXD (TeXture Dictionary) image decoder

ffdec_ultimotion

FFmpeg IBM UltiMotion decoder

ffdec_vb

FFmpeg Beam Software VB decoder

ffdec_vc1

FFmpeg SMPTE VC-1 decoder

ffdec_vcr1

FFmpeg ATI VCR1 decoder

ffdec_vmdvideo

FFmpeg Sierra VMD video decoder

ffdec_vmnc

FFmpeg VMware Screen Codec / VMware Video decoder

ffdec_vp3

FFmpeg On2 VP3 decoder

ffdec_vp5

FFmpeg On2 VP5 decoder

ffdec_vp6

FFmpeg On2 VP6 decoder

ffdec_vp6a

FFmpeg On2 VP6 (Flash version, with alpha channel) decoder

ffdec_vp6f

FFmpeg On2 VP6 (Flash version) decoder

ffdec_vp8

FFmpeg On2 VP8 decoder

ffdec_vqavideo

FFmpeg Westwood Studios VQA (Vector Quantized Animation) video decoder

ffdec_wmv1

FFmpeg Windows Media Video 7 decoder

ffdec_wmv2

FFmpeg Windows Media Video 8 decoder

ffdec_wmv3

FFmpeg Windows Media Video 9 decoder

ffdec_wnv1

FFmpeg Winnov WNV1 decoder

ffdec_xan_wc3

FFmpeg Wing Commander III / Xan decoder

ffdec_xl

FFmpeg Miro VideoXL decoder

ffdec_yop

FFmpeg Psygnosis YOP Video decoder

ffdec_zlib

FFmpeg LCL (LossLess Codec Library) ZLIB decoder

ffdec_zmbv

FFmpeg Zip Motion Blocks Video decoder

ffdec_aac

FFmpeg Advanced Audio Coding decoder

ffdec_aac_latm

FFmpeg AAC LATM (Advanced Audio Codec LATM syntax) decoder

ffdec_ac3

FFmpeg ATSC A/52A (AC-3) decoder

ffdec_alac

FFmpeg ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) decoder

ffdec_als

FFmpeg MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) decoder

ffdec_amrnb

FFmpeg Adaptive Multi-Rate NarrowBand decoder

ffdec_ape

FFmpeg Monkey’s Audio decoder

ffdec_atrac1

FFmpeg Atrac 1 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding) decoder

ffdec_atrac3

FFmpeg Atrac 3 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3) decoder

ffdec_binkaudio_dct

FFmpeg Bink Audio (DCT) decoder

ffdec_binkaudio_rdft

FFmpeg Bink Audio (RDFT) decoder

ffdec_cook

FFmpeg COOK decoder

ffdec_dca

FFmpeg DCA (DTS Coherent Acoustics) decoder

ffdec_dsicinaudio

FFmpeg Delphine Software International CIN audio decoder

ffdec_eac3

FFmpeg ATSC A/52B (AC-3, E-AC-3) decoder

ffdec_flac

FFmpeg FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) decoder

ffdec_gsm

FFmpeg GSM decoder

ffdec_gsm_ms

FFmpeg GSM Microsoft variant decoder

ffdec_imc

FFmpeg IMC (Intel Music Coder) decoder

ffdec_mace3

FFmpeg MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 3

ffdec_mace6

FFmpeg MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 6

ffdec_mlp

FFmpeg MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing) decoder

ffdec_mp1float

FFmpeg MP1 (MPEG audio layer 1) decoder

ffdec_mp2float

FFmpeg MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2) decoder |

ffdec_mpc7

FFmpeg Musepack SV7 decoder

ffdec_mpc8

FFmpeg Musepack SV8 decoder

ffdec_nellymoser

FFmpeg Nellymoser Asao decoder

ffdec_qcelp

FFmpeg QCELP / PureVoice decoder

ffdec_qdm2

FFmpeg QDesign Music Codec 2 decoder

ffdec_real_144

FFmpeg RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K) decoder

ffdec_real_288

FFmpeg RealAudio 2.0 (28.8K) decoder

ffdec_shorten

FFmpeg Shorten decoder

ffdec_sipr

FFmpeg RealAudio SIPR / ACELP.NET decoder

ffdec_smackaud

FFmpeg Smacker audio decoder

ffdec_sonic

FFmpeg Sonic decoder

ffdec_truehd

FFmpeg TrueHD decoder

ffdec_truespeech

FFmpeg DSP Group TrueSpeech decoder

ffdec_tta

FFmpeg True Audio (TTA) decoder

ffdec_twinvq

FFmpeg VQF TwinVQ decoder

ffdec_vmdaudio

FFmpeg Sierra VMD audio decoder

ffdec_wmapro

FFmpeg Windows Media Audio 9 Professional decoder

ffdec_wmav1

FFmpeg Windows Media Audio 1 decoder

ffdec_wmav2

FFmpeg Windows Media Audio 2 decoder

ffdec_wmavoice

FFmpeg Windows Media Audio Voice decoder

ffdec_ws_snd1

FFmpeg Westwood Audio (SND1) decoder

ffdec_pcm_lxf

FFmpeg PCM signed 20-bit little-endian planar decoder

ffdec_interplay_dpcm

FFmpeg DPCM Interplay decoder

ffdec_roq_dpcm

FFmpeg DPCM id RoQ decoder

ffdec_sol_dpcm

FFmpeg DPCM Sol decoder

ffdec_xan_dpcm

FFmpeg DPCM Xan decoder

ffdec_adpcm_4xm

FFmpeg ADPCM 4X Movie decoder

ffdec_adpcm_adx

FFmpeg SEGA CRI ADX ADPCM decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ct

FFmpeg ADPCM Creative Technology decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ea

FFmpeg ADPCM Electronic Arts decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ea_maxis_xa

FFmpeg ADPCM Electronic Arts Maxis CDROM XA decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ea_r1

FFmpeg ADPCM Electronic Arts R1 decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ea_r2

FFmpeg ADPCM Electronic Arts R2 decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ea_r3

FFmpeg ADPCM Electronic Arts R3 decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ea_xas

FFmpeg ADPCM Electronic Arts XAS decoder

ffdec_g722

FFmpeg G.722 ADPCM decoder

ffdec_g726

FFmpeg G.726 ADPCM decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ima_amv

FFmpeg ADPCM IMA AMV decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ima_dk3

FFmpeg ADPCM IMA Duck DK3 decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ima_dk4

FFmpeg ADPCM IMA Duck DK4 decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ima_ea_eacs

FFmpeg ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts EACS decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ima_ea_sead

FFmpeg ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts SEAD decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ima_iss

FFmpeg ADPCM IMA Funcom ISS decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ima_qt

FFmpeg ADPCM IMA QuickTime decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ima_smjpeg

FFmpeg ADPCM IMA Loki SDL MJPEG decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ima_wav

FFmpeg ADPCM IMA WAV decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ima_ws

FFmpeg ADPCM IMA Westwood decoder

ffdec_adpcm_ms

FFmpeg ADPCM Microsoft decoder

ffdec_adpcm_sbpro_2

FFmpeg ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 2-bit decoder

ffdec_adpcm_sbpro_3

FFmpeg ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 2.6-bit decoder

ffdec_adpcm_sbpro_4

FFmpeg ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 4-bit decoder

ffdec_adpcm_swf

FFmpeg ADPCM Shockwave Flash decoder

ffdec_adpcm_thp

FFmpeg ADPCM Nintendo Gamecube THP decoder

ffdec_adpcm_xa

FFmpeg ADPCM CDROM XA decoder

ffdec_adpcm_yamaha

FFmpeg ADPCM Yamaha decoder

ffdec_ass

FFmpeg Advanced SubStation Alpha subtitle decoder

ffdec_dvbsub

FFmpeg DVB subtitles decoder

ffdec_dvdsub

FFmpeg DVD subtitles decoder

ffdec_pgssub

FFmpeg HDMV Presentation Graphic Stream subtitles decoder

ffdec_xsub

FFmpeg XSUB decoder

Third Party Solutions

Third parties like Ittiam and VisualON provide highly optimized ARM only codecs on Linux, WinCE and Android OS.

Software Components & Dependencies

The following lists some of the software components and dependencies associated with the Sitara SDK.

Dependancies: Required packages to build Gstreamer on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install automake autoconf libtool docbook-xml docbook-xsl fop libxml2 gnome-doc-utils

  • build-essential

  • libtool

  • automake

  • autoconf

  • git-core

  • svn

  • liboil0.3-dev

  • libxml2-dev

  • libglib2.0-dev

  • gettext

  • corkscrew

  • socket

  • libfaad-dev

  • libfaac-dev

Software components for Sitara SDK Release:

  • glib

  • gstreamer

  • liboil

  • gst-plugins-good

  • gst-ffmpeg

  • gst-plugins-bad

  • gst-plugins-base

Re-enabling Mp3 and Mpeg2 decode in the Processor SDK

Starting with version 05.05.01.00, mp3 and mpeg2 codecs are no longer distributed as part of the SDK. These plugins can be re-enabled by the end user through rebuilding the gst-plugins-ugly package. The following instructions have been tested with gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.19 which can be found at **gstreamer.freedesktop.org**. Note that these instructions will work for any of the gstreamer plugin packages found in the sdk.

  • Source environment-setup at the terminal

  • Navigate into the example-applications path under the SDK install directory

  • Extract the GStreamer plug-in source archive

  • Navigate into the folder that was created

  • On the command line type ./configure --host=arm-arago-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/usr

  • Notice that some components are not built because they have dependencies that are not part of our SDK

  • Run make to build the plugins.

  • Run make install DESTDIR=<PATH TO TARGET ROOT>

4.1.3. Accelerated Multimedia

Refer to various GStreamer pipelines documented at Multimedia chapter.

4.1.4. Graphics and Display

Refer to various SGX 3D demos and other Graphics applications at Graphics and Display chapter.

4.1.5. WLAN and Bluetooth

Introduction

This page is a landing page for the entire set of WLAN and Bluetooth Demos available for the WL127x. Many of the demos are platform-agnostic, others apply specifically to a single platform.

The WL127x’s dual mode 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth transceiver gives users a robust selection of applications. A list of some basic use cases preloaded on the EVMs can be seen below:


Senario

Description

Bluetooth A2DP profile

Play a *.wav music file from the EVM on a stereo headset

Bluetooth OPP profile

Send a *.jpg image from the EVM to a cellular phone via OPP profile

Bluetooth FTP profile

Sends a text file from the EVM to a PC via FTP profile

Wireless LAN ping

Connect to an Access Point and perform a ping test

Wireless LAN throughput

Test UDP downstream throughput using the iPerf tool

Web browsing through the WLAN

Browse the web over WLAN using a PC connected to the EVM Ethernet port

Bluetooth and WLAN coexistence

Play a *.wav music file from the EVM on a stereo headset while browsing the web over WLAN

Bluetooth Demos

Classic Bluetooth

Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE)


WLAN Demos

First Time

If running the WLAN demos on an EVM for the first time, it is recommended that you first complete the two steps below:

  • Step 1: Calibration – Calibration is a one-time procedure, performed before any WLAN operation. Calibration is performed once after the board assembly, or in case the 12xx connectivity daughtercard or EVM are replaced (refer to Calibration Process).

You may refer to Linux Wireless Calibrator page for more instruction.

  • Step 2: MAC address settings - This is a one-time procedure, done after the calibration, and before any WLAN operation is performed (refer to: <modifying WLAN MAC address>)

WLAN Station Demos

WLAN Soft AP Demos

WLAN - WiFi Direct Demos

Miscellaneous WLAN Demos


Miscellaneous Demos

Regulatory Domain