[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi now ships with 512MB RAM

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>

> The post I quoted and agreed with (that you've cut out) was one that
> said it's not a good idea to have a huge backend transcoding every
> single recording from MPEG-2 (or whatever) to H.264 just so you can
> use an RPi frontend with its built-in hardware H.264 decoder.
[...]
> And, yes, a system that's transcoding everything to H.264 (versus
> storing it in its native recording format) does make for an extremely
> power hungry system.

Ah.  Got it.  

Then I'll go back to agreeing with you about everything. (Though in fact, if
you have 12 backends, you would at least get to amortize that transcoding over
more clients... ;-)

Should I assume we have no way to utilize hardware assist to transcode, GPUs
or the like?

Cheers,
-- jra
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