[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi suitability for MythFrontend

[Mark Hutchinson]

On Sunday, February 19, 2012, Nick Rout wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Mark Hutchinson <markhsa at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sunday, February 19, 2012, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 19:18, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com<javascript:;>
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> ....
> >> > The big issue is playback.  That puny little processor won't cut it
> for
> >> > much of anything, which leaves video decoding completely dependent on
> >> > the hardware decoder.
> >>
> >> According to the various docs on their website, the shipping
> >> product has (only) licensed MPEG4/H.264 decoding from
> >> Broadcom to place in the binary blob driver.  Depending on
> >> your location (and capture card), a fair amount of "TV" is
> >> broadcast in MPEG2 format (which was not licensed).  So,
> >> unless you are using a HD-PVR to get MPEG4 content, or
> >> live in an area where "TV" is broadcast in MPEG4, you would
> >> either have to transcode everything, or do real-time transcoding
> >> to be able to take advantage of the hardware decoding
> >> capability (I suppose, in an idealized world, one might
> >> be able to do glitchless software decoding of low bit-rate
> >> MPEG2 content).  Of course, there is more than just
> >> "TV" content available, and some is in MPEG4.
> >>
> >> I, for one, look forward to the original petitioners code
> >> contributions for a working MythTV frontend to
> >> Raspberry Pi port.
> >>
> >> Personally, I expect to see the current Raspberry Pi
> >> to be used more as a (more limited) media player
> >> than a full function front-end.  There a lots of places
> >> where that is an excellent solution.
> >
> >
> > Interesting.  So as I use an hrpvr
>
> yes but you also need a player with openMAX support.
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Which players have open max support?   So if a person uses an hdpvr to
capture all content as I do,  would myth frontend work well then?  With
which decoder?
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