A movie does not play smoothly on Android.

Akira Koike

We installed "ANDROIDDEVKIT-GINGERBREAD-AM38X" on our board that is using DM8168 and TMDXEVM8168 board.

We could boot up Android. but we have a big issue. A movie does not play smoothly using gallery. I think that the hardware decoder is not working.

Please teach me a solution.

The log information of movie play is the following.

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I/ActivityManager( 118): Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=content://media/external/video/media/3 typ=video/mp4 cmp=com.cooliris.media/.MovieView } from pid 387
I/RenderView( 387): OnPause RenderView com.cooliris.media.RenderView@406ffb48
D/dalvikvm( 118): GC_CONCURRENT freed 1201K, 50% free 4016K/7879K, external 3169K/4369K, paused 3ms+4ms
I/ActivityManager( 118): Displayed com.cooliris.media/.MovieView: +230ms
D/MediaPlayer( 387): getMetadata
W/AudioPolicyManagerALSA(   62): AudioPolicyManagerALSA::getStrategyForStream() Stub Called...
W/AudioPolicyManagerALSA(   62): redirecting AudioPolicyManagerALSA::getStrategy()
D/TIALSAModule(   62): open called for devices 00000000 in mode 0...
I/CacheService( 387): Starting CacheService
I/TIALSAModule(   62): Initialized ALSA PLAYBACK device default
E/AudioHardwareALSA(   62): RE-OPEN AFTER STANDBY:: took 728 msecs
W/AudioFlinger(   62): write blocked for 728 msecs, 3 delayed writes, thread 0x41050
D/TIOverlay( 118): overlay_createOverlay:IN w=480 h=368 format=0x16

E/TIOverlay( 118): Failed to open overlay device
E/TIHardwareRenderer( 62): Unable to create the overlay!
E/MemoryHeapBase( 62): error opening /dev/pmem_adsp: No such file or directory

I/SoftwareRenderer( 62): Creating physical memory heap failed, reverting to regular heap.
I/CacheService( 387): Preparing DiskCache for all thumbnails.
I/CacheService( 387): DiskCache ready for all thumbnails.
W/InputManagerService( 118): Window already focused, ignoring focus gain of: com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@407c8c10

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Regards,

over 13 years ago

0 Satish Patel over 13 years ago

TI__Expert 4390 points

Hi Akira,

1. Have integrated any components to devkit ? Or you are using the same components what came alonge with devkit.

2. Have you tried with prebuilt images ?

http://software-dl.ti.com/dsps/dsps_public_sw/sdo_tii/TI_Android_DevKit/TI_Android_GingerBread_2_3_DevKit_2_0/index_FDS.html

3. Also, you refer to informal updates of andorid source, with h/w decoders at following location

http://code.google.com/p/rowboat/wiki/TI81xxWithMultimediaAcceleration

Note: This release is not fully validated, but you can start of this as latest update

satish

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A movie does not play smoothly on Android.