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

[jedi]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 11:11:27PM +0000, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 02/02/15 20:45, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Jason Sullivan <jason0x21 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>... Is it just a matter....
> >
> >Excellent.  Another individual suggesting they will be contributing
> >a MythTV feature patch.  Perhaps you and Nick should work
> >together on the patch (to avoid duplicate effort).
> >
> >Or do you mean "is it just a matter" of a skilled someone
> >ELSE (re)factoring some code with a completely different set
> >of presumptions and internal APIs to write some complicated
> >code?
> >
> >If it "is just a matter" of trivial work, perhaps you could choose
> >the gstreamer video decoding library, which already supports
> >almost all of the existing SoC decoders (openmax, vivante,
> >vaapi, mali, vdpau).  One API to rule them all?
> >   Obligatory xkcd ref:  http://xkcd.com/927/
> >
> Really, really irritating reply.
> 
> All the guy was asking was if that was a possible approach to the
> problem. Nobody was suggesting that a patch would be forthcoming or
> even that it was worth doing.
> 
> Before a patch can be written it is necessary to know if the
> suggested approach would solve the problem.
> 
> Try easing up on people sometimes.

   I dunno. Finding some method to "steal code" from XBMC seems like a 
genuis idea. They seem to have a lot more resources and developers. If
there were anyway to snarf their stuff, it seems like a that would 
ultimately be a net gain.