[mythtv-users] Real Frontend on PC stick?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/27/2013 10:54, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> There are an increasing number of more powerful PC's on a stick, which
> plug directly into an HDMI port with built in wifi and bluetooth. They
> are mostly Android, some can run Linux.
>
> Are there any capable of running a real Myth frontend, ie one which can
> understand the commercial markings and seek without transcoding at the
> backend?

You're simply not going to find any ARM CPU with enough grunt to run HD 
video decoding in software. All other factors aside, no such system is 
going to be possible until someone writes the necessary code to 
interface with its hardware decoders.