First LIME image was done in hurry and there is no hardware acceleration enabled, which dissapointed some of the first LIME owners if you read the comments 🙂
As many know recently Linux-Sunxi community successfully reverse engineered CedarX VPU and completely open source drivers for hardware accelerated video playback for A10 was done. The supported formats are just few for now but still something than nothing.
Dimitar made new image with hardware acceleration and here is video in Full HD format H.264 (MP4) playing on LIME:
we need now to do some testing and upgrade the image to our wiki 🙂
olimex 
Dec 18, 2013 @ 17:30:17
Ah, FINALLY, no more binary blobs! Awesome work!
Dec 18, 2013 @ 19:36:16
Reblogged this on más manuti.
Dec 18, 2013 @ 19:51:56
You atre incredible, please do the A20 1Gb version asap
Dec 18, 2013 @ 20:07:36
you can bet next image will be A20 with Hardware acceleration 🙂
at the moment the open source driver supports only H.264 and MPEG12 formats
Dec 19, 2013 @ 14:18:28
Is it possible to enable H.264 encode with the open source drivers? Encoding is extremely useful for low bandwidth video streaming applications..
Dec 19, 2013 @ 14:23:42
this is something linux-sunxi developers work on but still not done
Dec 20, 2013 @ 00:11:26
good news ! nice job guys
Dec 29, 2013 @ 03:42:38
I’m asking me: buy an A10 Lime or an A20 Olinuxino if a Mediacenter w. XBMC (esp. FullHD-playback) plus some minor goodies (minor: lirc, wol of server etc.) Could you give me a hint, please, which plattform atm. has the lesser drawbacks? Tia. Boris
Jan 07, 2014 @ 19:43:18
… Wow, please i need some more information. Links source code, github fork
Is it possible to port it to other A10 devices, like Mele A1000/2000 or anything like that. Please give us more details … thanks.
Also posted on xbmc.org forum
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=126995&pid=1593030#pid1593030
Jan 07, 2014 @ 21:51:28
Check https://github.com/linux-sunxi/libvdpau-sunxi
All the instructions are there.
Jan 14, 2014 @ 04:23:36
Is the new image ready?
Where can we doenload lime images?
Jan 14, 2014 @ 17:56:01
I wrote up a little more detailed manual up over on our wiki.
http://linux-sunxi.org/Cedrus
Feb 19, 2014 @ 15:50:30
please let us know when it is ready