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

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On 18/10/2012 6:59 a.m., Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- 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

Recalling the R'Pis also can encode H264, makes me wonder if a pi might 
be recruited on a back end (?Lo power) to encode / transcode?

If it were to be then I expect it would be best to interface via usb, 
because in any event the Ethernet interface is connected internally on 
the Pi thru USB.