[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi as remote transcoder

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Roy Lofthouse <lofty69 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 August 2012 07:51, Chris Lewis <chrislewis915 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> As it also has MPG2 HW decode im hoping it should be able to do the entire
>> transcode in HW.
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> Chris
>>

>
> I was under the impression that mpg2 hw decoding was not working on
> the pi due to licencing issues.

You can now buy a license (unique to your RPi) for a trivial amount.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1839