XBMC & Wayland, the new compositor

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air.zrakovic Offline
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2012-01-05 05:38 Post: #1
look what I found on their mailing list massage, they have you (xbmc) in mind Big GrinNod


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Whether changing the display mode should be requested by the client but
not decided by the compositor. There are some applications which would
like to change the display mode to make itself fullscreen no matter
whether there is any other application. Like XBMC and Quake 3.
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2012-01-05 06:16 Post: #2
wayland can be future replacement for X. Maybe this topic should be in Linux-specific?
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zAo_OSX Offline
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2012-06-06 17:48 Post: #3
I'm so looking forward to a XBMC Wayland build! Especially on ARM.
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2012-06-06 19:00 Post: #4
(2012-06-06 17:48)zAo_OSX Wrote:  I'm so looking forward to a XBMC Wayland build! Especially on ARM.


On ARM, DirectFB support (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/454) can be a much better improvement since it aims to run without a windowmanager. For x86 Wayland seems to be the way forward but it will take lots of time before XBMC will make use of it. Probably, first the major distro's should start using it....
(This post was last modified: 2012-06-06 19:07 by Robotica.)
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2012-06-14 17:00 Post: #5
(2012-06-06 19:00)Robotica Wrote:  
(2012-06-06 17:48)zAo_OSX Wrote:  I'm so looking forward to a XBMC Wayland build! Especially on ARM.


On ARM, DirectFB support (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/454) can be a much better improvement since it aims to run without a windowmanager. For x86 Wayland seems to be the way forward but it will take lots of time before XBMC will make use of it. Probably, first the major distro's should start using it....
Thanks, but that article on github is closed and pronounced 'dead'.
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2012-06-19 09:42 Post: #6
Wayland support requires removing all X dependencies. I believe XBMC UI is OpenGL based and that means moving XBMC to OpenGL ES (which does not have X dependency) and probably the video acceleration layer needs to make use of non-X methods (like vaapi on KMS / wayland).

People using Nvidia will be out of luck as Nvidia VDPAU depends on X.

I have high hopes for Wayland + Ubuntu TV!
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2012-06-19 11:40 Post: #7
XBMC's iOS port already uses OpenGL ES.
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2012-10-26 00:54 Post: #8
Wayland 1.0 is released. 1.0 marks a stable API.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wa...05967.html
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2012-10-26 10:08 Post: #9
butchered, totally meaningless half-arsed X11 implementation? WOHO! must jump on it right away... wait.
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2012-10-28 15:55 Post: #10
Who needs the aged X11? Smile
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