[mythtv-users] Netgear EVA9150 and MythTV

[Raymond Wagner]

On 6/23/2010 19:32, Jason Ward wrote:
> the EVA9150 does apear to be powered by Sigma device, the SMP8634
> apparently
>
> "The SMP8634 provides a highly-integrated solution for products
> requiring high-definition MPEG-4.10 (H.264), SMPTE 421M (VC-1), WMV9,
> MPEG-4.2, and MPEG-2 decoding."
>    

While it would not be difficult to get MythTV running on an ARM 
processor, you still need something else to handle the decoding.  The 
ARM just doesn't have the power to do so.  Yes, that particular chip 
provides a pair of hardware video decoders, but they're not going to do 
you any good if you don't know how to use them.

Sigma Designs has not openly released  the specs to those decoders, so 
you have to agree to an NDA to get access to the information needed to 
use them.  Being behind an NDA, you cannot release open source code that 
uses such hardware.  The only way MythTV, or any open source project for 
that matter, would ever support that chip is if someone spent the time 
to reverse engineering the interface.  It's simply not worth the effort 
when other options are available.