[mythtv-users] MythFrontend on the Nokia n800

[Yan Seiner]

Jay R. Ashworth
> A bit o'Googling tells me that someone's actually ported the real live
> frontend (presumably with mouse support) onto these nifty little toys,
> one of which I just bought.
>
> But finding it, and finding a Maemo-compatible repo for the
> dependencies it will have, seems a bit more difficult...
>
> I've seen the mtv packages, but they have the same problem (and my
> sis's box is pretty anemic at the moment, anyway).
>
> Anyone else done this, and have some pointers?  I'll be happy to write
> up the results for the wiki...

I don't know about the N8x0, but I have transcoded movies to my Sharp
Zaurus.  It runs a 400 MHz arm CPU.  I use mplayer to play them.

I needed to transcode video down to 320x240 and rotated 90 deg (the Sharp
screen is 480x640 native) and 15 FPS to get acceptable video and
low-enough CPU usage.  The screen is small enough where this makes no
difference; visually the detail is similar to native DVD resolution on a
big-screen LCD.

So yes, it's possible to show video, but there has to be a heck of a
backend transcoding in realtime...

--Yan

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