Open Source Embedded Video Player

A project that demonstrates how to build a video playback system for embedded devices using solely open-source software. It utilizes hardware acceleration on i.MX6 platforms with components like GStreamer, Qt QML, the etnaviv GPU driver, and the coda video decoder driver. This pr

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