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Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black

By : Hafiz Muhammad I Sadiq, Irfan Sadiq
Book Image

Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black

By: Hafiz Muhammad I Sadiq, Irfan Sadiq

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Action time


Now, we have developed an understanding of the underlying details. We have built images that contain a video player, that is, gaku and GStreamer, to support this player as a multimedia framework. We have enabled a minimal set of plugins for our use. Having all this, we are ready to see how this actually works. Perform the following steps to see this in action.

  1. Connect your board with the HDMI display. I have used my Samsung 32'' LED TV for this purpose.

  2. To connect the TV to the board, I used a micro HDMI-to-HDMI cable.

  3. Copy some .ogg video file. You can convert some existing video file. You can download video files from http://techslides.com/sample-webm-ogg-and-mp4-video-files-for-html5.

  4. Copy your downloaded video file to the board, directly onto a card, or using SSH, if you have connected the board to a network.

  5. Launch gaku from UI.

  6. I attached a USB mouse to use the UI.

  7. Use the + button to browse to the directory containing the sample.ogg file.

  8. Choose your copied video file (in my...