[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi as remote transcoder

[Roy Lofthouse]

On 30 August 2012 07:51, Chris Lewis <chrislewis915 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Is there any software written to take advantage of this hardware
>> capability yet?
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> No not yet, but with the way the RPi community is growing I would imagine it
> wont be too long before something is available.
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> As it also has MPG2 HW decode im hoping it should be able to do the entire
> transcode in HW.
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> I have no HD bays left in my BE case and if i start to replace the disks
> with larger ones im going to end up with a load of redundant 500 gig disks.
> A £30 RPi would be a neat solution if it could sit and do my transcoding
> whilst drawing no more than 5 watts!
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> Chris
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I was under the impression that mpg2 hw decoding was not working on
the pi due to licencing issues.