(2011-04-20)
Brian DeLacey demonstrates the Genesi Efika MX Smarttop running Ubuntu 10.10 - and a medley of programs in C, Python, Java, Ruby, Haskell, and Scala.
(2nd of 3 short presentations)
User group meeting of Boston Linux & Unix on Wednesday, April 20, 2011.
BLU calendar entry : http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2011-apr
I rather like to see the gadget itself in action. Demostration is something focused on performing more than speaking/speeching...
txellenne 1 month ago in playlist [BLU] Short Takes, April 2011
FYI, the Smarttop demonstrated in the video is capable of playing back 720p H.264 video, using the built-in hardware decoder. The playback software has to use this hardware though, and not much software supports it yet. I know Genesi is working on getting GStreamer to use the hardware decoder, which would make Totem Movie Player (default video player in Ubuntu) work with the hardware decoder.
The new i.MX53-based Smarttop (July/Aug.) will support 1080p H.264 decoding (when software enables it).
malkdk 8 months ago