[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi as remote transcoder

Roy Lofthouse lofty69 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 19:18:36 UTC 2012


Great, thanks for the link guys.

On 30 August 2012 09:02, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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