[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi For Mythfrontend 0.26 - Any successes?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 6/28/2013 4:02 PM, nospam312 wrote:
> Has anyone had any success running Mythfronend 0.26 on a Model B 
> Raspberry Pi?
>
> I am only interested in running Mythfrontend only - backend is on 
> another PC.
>
> What is the maximum resolution MPEG2 recording it can play?

As has been stated multiple times, there are two major hurdles 
preventing use of mythfrontend on a Raspberry Pi.

Mythfrontend will not run happily at high resolutions on a system with 
somewhere less than 200MB of system memory, which is what you have after 
the graphics core gets its fill.  A second generation unit has 512MB 
total (again minus the graphics core's take), which should alleviate 
this issue.

Mythfrontend will not be useful on a system unless it can actually play 
back video, which either means sufficient CPU, or a usable hardware 
decoder.  The Raspberry Pi has nowhere near the former, and will not 
have the latter until someone spends the time writing an OpenMAX 
implementation for MythTV.