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Bug 4510

Summary: [Feature Request] include jsmpeg video driver?
Product: SDL Reporter: chw
Component: videoAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: WAITING --- QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P2    
Version: 2.0.6   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description chw 2019-02-18 05:52:09 UTC 
in my private branch of SDL2 (based on 2.0.6) I've managed to add a
video driver based on jsmpeg (see https://github.com/phoboslab/jsmpeg).
Please find the code in https://www.androwish.org in the jni/SDL2 folder.
Should it be usable, I'll be glad if you include it into the official SDL2.

Best,
Christian
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2019-03-17 02:24:46 UTC 
What's the use case for this?
Comment 2 chw 2019-03-17 04:56:26 UTC 
The idea is to have headless operation e.g. on a Raspberry
resembling Xvnc but without the overhead of an X11 installation.
Comment 3 Sam Lantinga 2019-06-12 03:35:30 UTC 
This is cool, can you put together some documentation and a standalone demonstration?

Thanks!
Comment 4 chw 2019-06-12 08:47:44 UTC 
End of June 2019 I'll have a talk @ EuroTcl2019, see

  https://ssl.webpack.de/www.eurotcl.eu

where I will present it in combination with undroidwish.
Usually the talks appear soon later in the Tcl/Tk youtube
channel, see

  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaHkl87soQMlWHbLdFdNf0w

Slides of the conferences will be online after the conference, too.

Meanwhile, there's my 2018 talk in

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6B5PN_xfQU

which shows SDL2 with Tcl/Tk on Wayland, Haiku, KSMDRM, etc.

All the best,
Christian
Comment 5 Sam Lantinga 2019-06-12 14:51:09 UTC 
I'm actually asking for a way to run the programs in the SDL test directory in a way that I can see and verify the functionality?
Comment 6 chw 2019-06-13 05:23:21 UTC 
(In reply to Sam Lantinga from comment #5)

> I'm actually asking for a way to run the programs in the SDL test directory
> in a way that I can see and verify the functionality?

Ah, I see. Having not checked it myself, forcible set the video driver to
be used per environment variable SDL_VIDEODRIVER=jsmpeg prior to starting
your test binary. When the test binary runs, point your HTML5/WebGL
capable browser to http://localhost:8080

If you'd like to use another TCP port, use the environmnt variable
SDL_VIDEO_JSMPEG_PORT=8181 for TCP port 8181 and so on.

HTH,
Christian