[mythtv-users] Anyone using arm with mythbackend?

Fred Watt fredwattmythtv at gmail.com
Fri Aug 16 20:34:28 UTC 2013


On 16/08/13 21:14, Tyler T wrote:
> I see the anti-ARM crowd has already jumped in. Here's the reality: I 
> use a SheevaPlug (same ARM CPU as the Seagate mentioned earlier) for 
> my Myth BE and it works just fine. Reschedules take a little while, so 
> if you schedule a new show it doesn't show up in the Upcoming 
> Recordings right away. Otherwise, I'm very happy with it. I do not 
> commflag or transcode however.
> Performance is not an issue. The thing is shoveling bits from HDHR to 
> a hard drive and from the hard drive to a FE out on the network. If 
> some people get a kick out of using quad-core 3GHz CPUs to do 400MHz 
> of work, well, it's a free country. But don't tell me ARM is a 
> downgrade because I consider a big, noisy, hot, inefficient x86 box to 
> be a downgrade in every important way from my tiny, silent, cool, 
> efficient ARM.
>
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just googled... now there's a thing 'the smile plug'.  thanks for your 
ideas and implementation.
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