[mythtv-users] MythTV on Raspberry PI 2...

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Mark J. Small <msmall at eastlink.ca> wrote:
> On February 2, 2015 08:02:56 PM Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>
>> As for any of the ARM SoCs out there, again, for a FE, it is all about
>> the decoding API availability (and what MythTV supports).  Which
>> means when the SoC fully supports VAAPI or VDPAU you might
>> be able to (slowly?) run a FE (or if you contribute support for another
>> API for MythTV).
>
> So, even if the new Raspberry Pi 2 has a hardware decoder, Mythtv can't take
> advantage of it unless a skilled somebody writes some (complicated) code in
> mythfrontend to take advantage of it.
>
> Mark

Luckily the Kodi/XBMC guys have taken care of that for you.