[mythtv-users] Trimslice ARM PC

[Raymond Wagner]

On 12/26/2011 22:49, Erik Jensen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
>> On 12/22/2011 17:47, Per Hatlevik wrote:
>>>> I don't know about the frontend though.  It would need good video drivers
>>>> (very rare on ARM) that are supported by myth for any sort of acceleration.
>>>> That seems unlikely for now.
>>> if the video card on these arm systems supports decoding then they
>>> seem like a really nice frontend to me. tegra2 or tegra3 from nvidia
>>> look like they possibly support vdpau but i can't really find an
>>> concrete information on whether they do or don't support vdpau.....
>> The VDPAU interface is only available for the x86 architecture.  On ARM,
>> nVidia and several other manufacturers have embraced the OpenMAX
>> specification (from the OpenGL people) for media acceleration.  There is
>> interest among some of the video developers in adding support for it in
>> MythTV, and at least one who has considerable experience using it, but
>> no work as yet of actually implementing it.
> What magnitude of effort would implementing OpenMAX be?
>
> I'm interested in getting a MythFrontend working on the upcoming $35
> Raspberry Pi model B, an ARM board that uses OpenMAX for video
> acceleration. It seems like it would make a great front end. (HDMI
> out, 1080p video, ethernet, USB, boots from an SD card, powered via a
> micro USB connector, draws just a few Watts)

If you're looking to make a legitimate go at implementing this, you 
should talk to Mark Kendall (markk) and Isaac Richards (chutt) in the 
#mythtv IRC channel.