Lua, Moblin and streaming media

Published by Ali Mosavian, January 12, 2010 Filed in

As you might know (or not know), MoSync has had Moblin v2 support for a while now. Unfortunately, I have been the only one that had access to it. But I am glad to announce that the next stable release which is to be released quite soon, is going to have support for Moblin v2 devices. The reason that it hadn't been released earlier was that I did not have a good way of creating Moblin packages (deb and rpm) on windows and my thought was that there has to be a simpler way to creating Linux packages on windows then writing code for it yourself. Well, it turns out that there wasn't (not that I could find anyhow). And I ended up writing it myself, well, debian packaging anyway, rpms are created with the excellent redline-rpm by the freecompany. So expect to see Moblin devices in the next stable release. After that release, the next step for Moblin will be to hook into gstreamer, which will enable hardware acceleration for streaming media (that is, if that is used on the device). Apart from that, I will be writing a recompiler for Moblin as well, not that the current implementation is slow, but we at Mobile Sorcery always strive to give the end user the smoothest possible experience. 

Other fun news is that we now have a working port of the Lua scripting language for MoSync, although I doubt that this will be released with the stable release, it will be released quite soon.  

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