Record activity for XO-1.5

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> On 20 April 2010 18:06, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here's a version of the Record activity which works on XO-1.5:
>> git://dev.laptop.org/users/dsd/record
>
> forgot to mention the known issues, both residing outside the code of
> Record (I think):
>
>  - new version uses much less CPU than old version, which means that
> we get bitten by a kernel bug in the VIA DMA code, frames get
> corrupted when the CPU is able to go into C3 low power mode (as it
> does very frequently)
>  - picture-in-picture display in Audio and Photo mode shows upper-left
> corner of image only, rather than scaling it. (suspected to be a bug
> in openchrome's Xv support)
>
> Both bugs have people looking at them.

The latest Record 66 seems to work quite well on Fedora 13 without any
of the binary blobs which is more than can be said for some of the
other releases. What's the difference between that release and what
you have? It would be nice to have a converged codebase.

Peter