XUELK-AN-006: Video playing on i.MX6UL-based platforms

Info Box Applies to AXEL ULite Applies to SBC Lynx

History

Version	Date	Notes
1.0.0	May 2017	First release

Introduction

As known, i.MX6UL SoC is not designed to implement rich complex user interfaces (UI), even though it integrates an LCD controller. However, even simple UIs might require playing some sort of low-resolution videos.

This application note describes some tests that were performed on an AXELULite-based platform to evaluate the capabilities and the performances of the i.MXUL when it comes to playing such videos. The test bed was based on Debian Jessie distribution, as described here.

Adding gstreamer packages

Starting from original Debian root file system provided here, more packages need to be added for using the well known tool for video and audio manipulation i.e. gstreamer

More info about gstreamer can be found on here and on Github gstreamer server

We may assume that network interface has been already configured as described on [XUELK-AN-002:_Running_Debian_distribution#Adding_packages here] on XUELK-AN-002:_Running_Debian_distribution.

Test bed

TBD indicare caratteristiche del test bed (frequenza, RAM, risoluzione pannello ecc.).

Results

Use case #1: MPEG4 400x200@25fps

TBD

Use case #2: MPEG2 500x250@30fps

TBD

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