[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi suitability for MythFrontend

[jedi]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 05:06:52PM -0800, Mark Hutchinson wrote:
> On Sunday, February 19, 2012, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> 
> > On 2/19/2012 16:52, Mark Hutchinson wrote:
> > >
> > > 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?
> >
> > As explained, no.  MythTV does not support OpenMAX.
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> I hope this gets developed.  The amount of 100+ watt frontends replaced by
> a 3 watt machine would save serious $ overall. Standardized hardware like

    If your low power frontend can't handle it's own decoding duties then 
your percieved power savings will be lost as you need some other beefier 
machine somewhere to do the decoding. That might even be ultimately less 
efficient as it will likely be done on a general purpose CPU rather than 
a GPU.

> the pi could be just the ticket. One optimized download for myth frontend
> on known hardware. Massive advantages.
> I would view this as a critical move forward.

    Cheap is probably a better selling point for the PI.