[mythtv-users] Reference fanless frontend, frontend, backend, fe/be

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 1/12/2011 18:24, Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Tyler T<tylernt at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> There's an ARM port of Mythtv.
>>>>
>>>> (master) backend only as far as I know;
>>>
>>> The frontend also runs fine on ARM, I can watch HDTV at about 1fps
>>> over VNC. ;) I imagine SDTV on an ARM machine with video hardware
>>> works too, maybe even HD with a Broadcom CrystalHD chip or similar GPU
>>> offload.
>>
>> I understood that mythtv has been seen working on the beagleboard (arm
>> plus omap DSP).
>
> No.  XBMC has been seen working on the beagleboard.  There was a GSoC
> project last year that added support for it.  MythTV does compile and run on
> the ARM, but cannot use any of their available hardware acceleration.  None
> of them will be anywhere near fast enough for decoding of any HD video.

The wikipedia article claims the BB will do 720p video, and I have
seen it claimed elsewhere too, but that no doubt relies on access to
the omap DSP acceleration.