[mythtv-users] Trimslice ARM PC

[Gary Dawes]

On 27 December 2011 03:49, Erik Jensen <eriksjunk at laurelwoodart.com> 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)
>
> I'm interested in the Raspberry Pi as well, for a Mythfrontend or even
just something able to play from upnp. Be a very nice very cheap box to
stick to the back of the TVs.

Getting back on topic though, I mentioned on here last year that I had
installed debian and Mythtv on a Pogoplug to run as my Master backend.

I was advised by several people on here that it was not a good idea due to
the processing required by the rescheduler processes, and that they would
take a lot longer.

I changed tack, and my Myth Master is still the power hungry dual-core AMD,
but it now shuts down when not required, and the Pogoplug acts as a
"wake-on-lan concierge". When Myth shuts down it writes the wakeup time to
the pogoplug, which then executes WakeonLan at the desired time.

This was all due to the motherboard  not doing wakeup correctly on it's
own.Works well for me, and it has reduced my bills significantly.
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