After a long summer, I decided to work on my „transcoding“ project again. Last time I did that, I had created a working linux system, that was somewhat messy and not easily recreated. I updated to debian by using the debian armel snapshot: first I created a bootable SD card using the Texas Instruments DVSDK, then I replaced the root partition by debian armel. I had to create the /dev/console device node – and install the right kernel and modules from dvsdk (I changed the kernel to have CIFS and swap support too in that process).
I still cannot transcode video files that have a width that’s not dividable by 32. I need to write a custom DMAI application – or I just use my raspberry pi to encode h264 using OpenMAX.
