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Great...
by Anonymous on Sunday 20/Jul/2003, @10:02
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At least!
This is the beginning....XFree,react or die!
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What is DirectFB?
by Martin on Sunday 20/Jul/2003, @10:30
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I've visited the website but can't figure it out really.
Is it something like Microsoft's DirectX?
The website says something about hardware.
But is it realistic that graphic cards will support this?
I don't think they will create graphic cards which run on Linux/Un*x
only.
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Anyone fancy porting Konq/Embedded?
by Richard Moore on Sunday 20/Jul/2003, @15:08
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It should be possible (possibly even easy) to port Konqueror embedded to this platform. Anyone up to the job?
Rich.
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What's the difference
by cbcbcb on Sunday 20/Jul/2003, @15:39
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What's the difference between this and QT/Embedded? I thought QT/Embedded was Qt ported to the frame buffer and that Konqueror runs on QT/E already.
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Licensing concerns
by Burrhus on Sunday 20/Jul/2003, @16:02
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> A lot of things still have to be implemented, so please don't expect
> to be able to run Konqueror on DirectFB (yet).
The KDE libraries are licensed under the LGPL. We can run LGPL'd code on top of QT because of the Q Public License. Is it legal to run LGPL'd libraries on top of a GPL'd toolkit?
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fresco?
by panzi on Monday 21/Jul/2003, @05:58
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what's about fresco? i think this could be a X replacement (full hardware accellerated AND full network transparent):
http://fresco.org/
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Anna Falchi
by nonamenobody on Tuesday 22/Jul/2003, @09:51
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Is directfb responsible for the alpha-blending on Anna Falchi's top (in the screenshots)? If so, it must be some very clever software.
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You have no clue regarding DirectFB...
by .jon on Tuesday 22/Jul/2003, @16:26
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Introducing it should be noted, that DirectFB is a project of a german company called "Convergence" (http://www.convergence.de), who has several projects besides "DirectFB" in their pipline which include:
the DVB (Digital Video Broadcast, the standard for digital television in the EU) driver for Linux on the first available cards (based on a reference design by Technotrend)
dietlibc - a "thin" libc implementation
DirectFB - a hardware accelerated framebuffer (http://www.directfb.org)
and a reference implmenentation of the MHP (Multimedia Home Platform) for Linux, (which itself uses DVB as transport-mechanism).
There also exist other projects, having mainly to do with MPEG2 encoding and replay (DVB as well as DVD are MPEG2 based).
From these projects, all hosted on http://www.linuxtv.org, and from reading the companies website one should get a clearer picture.
This stuff is not being developed to replace X11 anytime soon. Instead it is an essential part to provide STB projects with a high-level graphics engine and assorted media frameworks. This stuff is not about your average "desktop", it is about Digital Convergence devices. Toucscreens, TV screens and VGA displays of course. Portable, STB, AV devices, not desktop-PCs. And as such the gfx-card manufacturers are more or less interested. Maybe the best example is the nearly complete support for the TVIA CyberPro 5xxx. The CyberPro is a powerfull (I have been told) graphics engine that gets used in STB (http://www.allwell.tv uses them, i.e.) with Video, TV and PiP support and some other "goodies", that you will require when using the TV.
And this is where "translucency" is not a playfull feature but a very good thing. One may think about OSDs (on screen displays) and similare. So it is a framebuffer with a mutlimedia/entertainment bias.
So all these ppl here who are standing up the front with their swords raised and their flags having a nice 95% banner should try to look at the world a bit more differenciated. The fact, that now QT, formerly GTK+ and parts of XFree got ported is just a win for all of us, especially who use DirectFB as part of their HTPC system (check out http://byzgl.sourceforge.net as an example distro) and want to do more than running some spare apps. Additionally it is good to see, that software like MPlayer supports DirectFB natively.
If DirectFB progresses and gets some better hardware support (blame the manufacturers for closing their drivers) not much would be needed in order to create a powerful embedded (sort of) MultiMedia engine on top of Linux.
All that I personally miss (I did not buy a G550DH by accident when building my MediaServer...) is a port of Mozilla. There is even two MPlayer plugins for Moz. Use your fantasy !
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