[mythtv-users] Mythtv frontend on asus chromebook

[Tony Gould]

in case it helps anyone in the future, I found the solution to this -- just
went into synaptic and installed xbuntu-restricted-extras (xbuntu because
I'm on xfce). Should have thought of that earlier!

On 24 January 2015 at 00:01, Tony Gould <antonyjgould+myth at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 January 2015 at 15:11, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:18:07PM +0000, Tony Gould wrote:
>> > hi, I've just bought an asus chromebook, Asus C300MA 13.3-inch
>> > Chromebook (Intel Celeron N2830 2.42GHz, 2GB RAM, 32GB Storage,
>> > WLAN, BT, Webcam, Integrated Graphics, Google Chrome) <
>> https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00K7YAT1O/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
>> >,
>> > and I've installed ubuntu 12.04 via crouton (see, e.g.,
>> http://lifehacker.com/how-to-install-linux-on-a-chromebook-and-unlock-its-ful-509039343
>> ).
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any ideas as to whether a mythtv frontend might
>> > work ok? I'm only recording SD on my backend, and I have a frontend
>>
>>     I've got one of the recent ASUS chrome boxes and it seems to have
>> enough horsepower. There is an installer app provided by Intel that
>> makes updating the GPU driver pretty easy. VAAPI seems to work well in
>> other apps. Although I haven't tested a current version mythtv.
>>
>>     It's running Ubuntu 14.04.
>>
>>     SD-only really makes things a lot easier.
>>
>> [deletia]
>>
>>
> thanks for all the encouragement everyone. I had a go at installing it and
> it seems to work ok except when I play recordings I get "mythtv video frame
> buffering failed too many times", and as a bonus there is another error box
> about audio. I don't really know where to go with this. I'm on the 0.27
> fixes code (mythbuntu repo). Any ideas?
>
>
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