[mythtv-users] What's missing from the RpI now?

[Michael Watson]

On 26/08/2012 4:11 AM, Tyler T wrote:
>>> MPEG2 Licences avaliable which should cover most encoders (ie DVB);
> Sweet! Ordered! The Raspberry Pi will be the perfect FE mate for my
> SheevaPlug BE. Since I record from my HDHR, MPEG-2 playback was my
> only hangup.I really look forward to a power-sipping, silent, solid
> state, totally ARM, DVR system.
>
>> Still need someone to write support for that decode API in MythTV. Still
>> need someone to clean up memory usage so the frontend is happy running on a
>> system with well under 200MB available.
> Might just be time to fork a lightweight FE. People with 4GB, 3GHz FEs
> are unlikely to be happy with software optimized for 200Mb, 700Mhz.
> But with a purchase price of $35 + $2.40, the RPi might be the hottest
> media player since... well, ever. No other hardware comes close to
> that price.
>
There is a version of XBMC that runs on the Pi.