• Format your newly created partition with ext3 file system

• Create a folder for mounting your new partition at /ext_hdd
• Mount your newly created hard disk partition to /ext_hdd

STEP 5: Copy a video file to your file system to be used for emulator video playback.

• Pre-requisite to the step is assumed that /ext_hdd is already mounted with the external hard disk partition on your emulator VM
• Copy your video file from your host machine to /ext_hdd folder on the emulator VM 
• Note: The following command is performed from your Host Machine

Usage Instructions

Logging into your VM

As described in the previous section, you can log in to your emulator VM from your Host Machine using the ssh command.

Testing

animation using westeros compositor

test application

RDK emulator supports westeros compositor and renderer module as westeros-renderer-gl. Do the following to check westeros animation using westeros_test command line utility.

• After logging in to the Emulator via ssh, kill the already running compositor application via below command

$ killall westeros

• Restart the Emulator VM
• Run following commands in terminal for manual starting the westeros compositor application

$ mkdir -p /run/user/0
$ export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/0/
$ export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libwesteros_gl.so.0.0.0
$ westeros --renderer /usr/lib/libwesteros_render_gl.so.0.0.0 --display WPE

• Run westeros_test application in another window as given below

$ westeros_test

Testing

video playback using Gstreamer command line utility

• Start the westeros compositor application as mentioned before if its not already running.
• Copy video files to the VM at /hdd path
• Execute below command(s) to play video

$ export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/0/
$ export WAYLAND_DISPLAY=WPE

#Check the plugin in image
$ gst-inspect-1.0 westerossink

# To play the video and render on westeros compositor
$ gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri=httpfile://localhost:50050/received_spts1.ts videosink=westerossink/hdd/<filename>