[mythtv-users] Arm Based Frontend
Bert Haskins
bhaskins at chartermi.net
Sun Apr 20 01:15:55 UTC 2014
On 04/19/2014 07:47 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>
> On Apr 20, 2014 3:15 AM, "Timothy Krantz" <tkrantz at stahurabrenner.com
> <mailto:tkrantz at stahurabrenner.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I know, here we go again, another question about low power front ends.
> >
> > Well, not really. I ran across some notes that said there was now
> VDPAU for the sunxi/mali400 chip devices. It seems to sit on top of
> the "binary blob" drivers.
> >
> > So, I fired up my trusty hackberry board and installed Fedora 20,
> got it completely up to date with the latest kernel off of the sunxi
> site. 3.4.79ish. Followed all the instructions on installing "binary
> blob" drivers and fbturbo and finally VDPAU.
> >
> > Then, being a masochist I downloaded the latest fixes .027 and went
> about compiling mythtv. Yes on the hackberry itself, I have not yet
> fiddled with cross compiling. I only compiled libs programs and yes
> it took forever. There was a syntax error in the ffmpeg portion. I
> found a patch for it in the ffmpeg forums and then it compiled ok. In
> fact everything compiled ok.
> >
> > So, I fired up mythfrontend. Damned if it did not come up. I set
> video play back to vdpau slim, audio to the hdmi device and went to
> play back a recording. I chose a very low file for my first test. A
> recording of "It takes a thief". After some crackling, it played. Yep
> it played. Not perfectly. Not usably, but it played. Oddly it
> played too fast as if I had chosen to play it back at maybe 1.5 times
> normal. There was some video tearing but the VDPAU stuff is still very
> new, perhaps that will change. I can't get the OSD to appear, not
> sure why. Choosing OpenGL for the painter gives a black screen (I
> fell back to qt). Oh and playback continued with 30-50 percent idle
> processor. Audio seems to be sketchy, I will try it with the non-hdmi
> connector to see if that makes a difference.
> >
> > Playing back higher quality digital programs produced similar
> results. Attempts to playback recordings from my HDPVR resulted in a
> ball of scrambled pixels in the center of the screen.
> >
> > Anyway, I *think* this may be the farthest anyone has gotten with
> one of these boards and I just wanted to share my experience.
>
> Fantastic work.
>
> The low power arm market is pretty full. I see a hackberry is US$65
> plus case, power supply, maybe needs remote control hardware too?
>
> For $100 you can get an Amazon FireTV, sideload XBMC, use the pvr
> client and also have access to Netflix, Amazon prime, and all the
> other goodies.
>
> Not trying to detract from your efforts, just saying ...
>
> >
> > Tim
>
What I would like to see is a Mythweb client that I could program once a
week
to faithfully record the shows that I now forget to record.
If this could be done from one of my many stm32 discovery cards..
as in HDHR -> SSD (low power - low heat) that would be great.
Sorry but I'm just not happy running rotating media 24/7.
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