Comments on: Installing CrystalHD Drivers In Linux

By: mark

mark — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:41:20 +0000

sorry that was suppsd to have been 7015 . Small keyboard kills me

By: mark

mark — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:09:46 +0000

I have A crystal hd 7925 not working in ubuntu 10.10. I ound his pae but for rge number in

mknod -m 666 /dev/crystalhd c 251 0

I run
grep crystalhd /proc/device
?
this yields a blank result. No what?

You also refer to “user land files ” can you please clarify.

By: julio De Gregorio

julio De Gregorio — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:53:31 +0000

Hi, I wonder if you could get the failure to boot fixed. I am experiencing the same on an eee box b202.
Although plugging the card after boot works if you reboot. Problem is only showing up when COLD booting.
The card works fine with XBMC
My problem is I have to remove and replace the card every power off or power failure =(
Any help is welcome.

By: Gavin Stark

Gavin Stark — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:06:49 +0000

OK, so now that I could confirm that the “hellobcm” program would process that very specific test file (hopefully confirming all the drivers/libraries are working) I thought I’d try the gstreamer plugin. Even against that sample file it fails to decode it. gstreamer WILL play the file without the broadcom plugin available. Anyone have success getting the gstreamer plugin working?

By: Multimedia Mike

Multimedia Mike — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:44:48 +0000

@Gavin: I had a similar experience with that updated code and the specific test sample. Regrettably, the code doesn’t allow easy validation of the results.

By: Gavin Stark

Gavin Stark — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:15:29 +0000

Update, when I downloaded a sample file from here: http://code.google.com/p/crystalhd-for-osx/downloads/detail?name=test_video.264 the hellobcm file could process it. (at least it stopped generating errors)

By: Gavin Stark

Gavin Stark — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:05:37 +0000

I get the exact same results as Dan above. This is with the code crystalhd_linux_20091229.zip

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:21:52 +0000

Hello,

I just went through this exercise with the Broadcom PCI mini card. The driver builds and loads. The hellobcm program runs, although it continuously fails. If you kill the process midstream, it locks up the whole computer. Libva doesn’t seem to recognize this card either, but mostly it complains about not being able to open DRI2 (isDRI2Connected => fail), and mplayer-accelerated with -vo vaapi failes when it tries to open DRI2. So not much luck here getting this thing working:

./hellobcm
starting up
Running DIL (0.9.25) Version
Mdata Pool Created…
DtsSetupHardware: DtsPushAuthFwToLink
DtsGetFirmwareFiles:Ctx->FwBinFile is /lib/firmware/bcmFilePlayFw.bin
DtsSetupHardware: Success
ADD buffs
…..
ADD buffs
DbgOptions=b0000025
try calls done
file opened successfully
Input Buffer: 0x812db20
Aligned Input Buffer: 0x812db20, Offset = 0
Y Buffer: 0xb53b3008
DtsFetchOutInterruptible: Failed:a
Timeout in DtsProcOutput. Accum Bytes: 65536
..etc.

By: Jarod's Junk Collection » The Broadcom Crystal HD and Linux story thus far…

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:42:55 +0000

[...] want to poke at it and need help making it behave, but most of the gory details can be seen in the post and comments over here in the Breaking Eggs And Making Omelettes blog, which if I understand correctly, belongs to one of the ffmpeg [...]

By: scott davilla

scott davilla — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:23:51 +0000

yes, test_video.264 is a JVT NAL sequence