[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi as remote transcoder

[Tyler T]

> Forget the transcoding and lets just code a full fledged frontend!

Indeed. Though I would expect hardware-assisted transcoding would be
added to Myth for VDPAU long before it was added for the RPi's
OpenMAX, simply because VDPAU has a lot more "market". And I haven't
seen much excitement about even VDPAU-assisted transcoding. (Still,
once someone writes a simple command-line OpenMAX transcode utility,
having Myth call it as an external shell job is trivial.)

But, I agree that adding OpenMAX support to Myth's FE makes a lot of
sense. MythTV is for tinkerers, RPi is for tinkerers; MythTV is all
about video, RPi is designed to display HD video; F/OSS like Myth
appeals to people who don't want to spend a lot of money, RPi is all
about F/OSS and is very very inexpensive...