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What’s new in the 12.03 Linaro Android Origen release?

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

Amit Pundir, Android Engineer at Linaro takes a moment to tell readers about what’s new in the Linaro 12.03 Android Origen release.

Its been almost a week since Linaro 12.03 was released and I wanted to tell you about some of the new features being offered in the 12.03 Linaro Android Origen release.

What’s new in the 12.03 Linaro Android Origen release?

One of the major features we pushed in this cycle was hardware accelerated Multimedia support. The 12.03 release now supports 1080p video (H264, MPEG4) playback at ~25fps. If you have an LCD module, you are just one step from getting an Android Tablet experience with Wlan/BT already on board. Just follow the instructions on the release page to flash the Linaro Android images on Origen.

Also, in this cycle is Mali accelerated HDMI display (which is a scaled-up version of 1024×600) and HDMI audio support. Now you can enjoy 1080p movies/youtube videos on an HDMI display connected to Origen board.

Binary blobs attack

There is no escape from binary blobs; is there? Not just yet in case of MM, HDMI, and Mali support on Origen, but we are working in that direction as well :)

In the current setup, we offer a tar package(or overlay) of binaries (MM, HDMI, Mali, Audio etc) which can be obtained from our image hosting server after accepting an EULA of course. Once you create the SD card images, you will need to run an installation script which is the part of this vendor tar package, and will install the necessary binaries on your SD card.

Detailed instructions are given on the release page.

Getting Involved
Checkout the 12.03 Linaro Android Origen release and fire up a bug report if you come across any or ask for support/queries on our linaro-android mailing list. We also hang out on the #linaro-android IRC channel on Freenode.

Users can also download sample video files from http://samplemedia.linaro.org/H264/ to validate/test video on their Origen board.

Before winding this up, I would sincerely like to thank the Samsung Landing team and Android team for their round the clock support.

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Amber 'akgraner' Graner entered the world of Open Source in 2009, blogging about her experiences. She co-authored the 6th and 7th editions of the Official Ubuntu Book. Articles by Amber can be found in Linux Pro and Ubuntu User Magazines (Linux New Media Publications) as well as InformIT, the Linaro Blog and various other blogging sites. Amber is also a reviewer of the 1st and 2nd editions of Art of Community. Amber is an Open Source use and philosophy advocate. Amber’s interviews with many Linaro and other Open Source personalities can be found on the Linaro and Linaro On Air youtube channels. Amber is constantly looking for ways to grow interest and community participation in Linaro. Ask me about: Linaro Community, Linux, Blogging, Community Building, Google+ Hangouts on Air, Open Souce Advocacy, Women in Open Source, Ubuntu
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One Response to What’s new in the 12.03 Linaro Android Origen release?

  1. younger says:
    March 1, 2013 at 8:42 am

    hi,
    I want a release support HDMI or DVI 1920x1080p @60fps.
    I am using Pandaboard.
    which release?

    Thanks
    BR

    Younger

    Reply

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