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wayland can be future replacement for X. Maybe this topic should be in Linux-specific?
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I'm so looking forward to a XBMC Wayland build! Especially on ARM.
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2012-06-06, 19:00
(This post was last modified: 2012-06-06, 19:07 by Robotica.)
(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....
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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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XBMC's iOS port already uses OpenGL ES.
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butchered, totally meaningless half-arsed X11 implementation? WOHO! must jump on it right away... wait.
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There aren't any hw accelerated drivers for wayland yet...
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i do. i run applications over the network all day.
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(2012-10-26, 10:08)spiff Wrote: butchered, totally meaningless half-arsed X11 implementation? WOHO! must jump on it right away... wait.
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Is there a way to run kodi natively over wayland?