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Blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/client-1303-hw-video-decode-rendering-support

Goals

• audio and video playback
• hardware accelerated
• Ubuntu Touch for now; Ubuntu Desktop in the future
• leverage Android BSPs of supported Ubuntu Touch devices
• DRM support

Out of scope

• Media capture / encoding
• Webcam
• Currently not targeting Ubuntu Desktop

• Currently not targeting WiFi Direct

Requirements

• Need to have a DRM solution for commercial products (OEM and media content industry requirement)
  • DRM solution might impose extra requirements on e.g. access to buffers, multiple processes, security/confinement etc.
• Support at least the codecs supported in the Android phones we're targeting as supported Ubuntu Touch devices
• Concurrent playback of multiple streams (at least audio mixing)
• Bluetooth audio output (e.g. headset)
• Media indexing?

Android bits

On Android,