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A couple of Linux relate questions

Epic Vancouver
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If a customer decides to use Linux on the OMAP35xx, what media applications can the customer run? Can you run Windows Media player on Linux?

Does the OMAP35xx or OMAP-L1xx support Open WRT Linux?

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    Intellectual 750 points

    Hi,

    You can't run "Windows Media player", but you can definitely decode and encode files supported by windows media player. You basically get access to TI's and TI's third party codecs for the DSP, and you can use CodecEngine to create your media applications. In a very near future you will be able to use gstreamer on top of them as well. Gstreamer is a powerful media framework that enables creation of complex media apps, and you can use a set of plugins that connect gstreamer with the DSP codecs. You can think of gstreamer like a sort of DirectX equivalent for windows. There is also a working port of ffmpeg to this platforms (which is a powerfull media library that power several media players), but it only uses the ARM side and not the DSP.

    Open WRT Linux doesn't support the OMAP parts, but if you are looking for open source embedded Linux distributions, the OpenEmbedded angstrom distribution supports BeagleBoard (so I think it shouldn't be difficult to use it with OMAP EVMs). Our company offers professional supported SDKs for OMAP35xx as well (and possible OMAP-L1xx in the future).

    Regards,

    Diego Dompe

    RidgeRun Engineering