[MrMC]

If AMLCodec is removed, then say goodbye to every OpenElec distro (ie WeTek) running on AML hardware. Just an FYI as to the result.

To keep it means creating a viable solution to the case where the internal renderer path is bypassed for video display. You can't just wave your hands and say it does things wrong. That's the way the system amcodec it works and no amount of words will change that. And as I have mentioned before, it was only when renderer started caring about time stamps did AMLCodec behavior start to degrade.

However there might be another way. The AML kernel drivers (there are many involved) now support a V4L interface. Memphiz used parts of it to handle boblight usage and I pointed him that way as a better solution to a kernel driver written by me for pivos lightpack usage. In theory, under OpenElec/Linux use the V4L API to pull back decoded frames, then pass then up to renderer. You might even be able to keep them on the GPU side to skip copy round trips. This would replicate the existing "not wrong' behavior of internal codecs.

Then nuke AMLCodec, replaced by MediaCodec on Android and a new V4LCodec for Linux.