stagefright: update support for omap3 decoders and encoders
OMAP3 uses 2 decoders, 720P.Decoder and Video.Decoder. 720P.Decoder is proprietary OMAP3 decoder from ITTIAM. Only one instance of the 720P decoder can run at a time due to memory restrictions (512MB) and it's quite slow at thumbnail generation and it's resource hungry. Video.Decoder is opensource and could support WVGA resolutions. It only supports baseline profile and max level 31 for AVC, but could run 4 instances at the same time and is quite fast especially for watching WhatsApp videos :P Using the 720P decoder for low resolution videos is not optimal and trying to use the Video.Decoder for videos other than Baseline profile will crash the entire DSP and would require a reboot. Currently stagefright uses codecs in the order they appear in media_codecs.xml without querying the supported level and profile from the decoder, due to which wrong codecs are selected causing problems. Similarly there are 2 encoders, 720P.Encoder and Video.Encoder. They support different resolutions and should be used selectively. This patch has been forward ported from Gingerbread branch. Change-Id: I74f843fe5d28faefa0b51191778ab2ee8c54f5f6
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