[mythtv-users] MythTV on Kodi

[Tom Bishop]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:

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> On 6/22/2015 9:20 AM, Ozzy Lash wrote:
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>  On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
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>> On 6/22/2015 7:57 AM, Mike Bibbings wrote:
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>>> Raspberry Pi (Model B and Pi 2 - the 4 core version with 1GB Ram), and
>>> Android (arm) with mythtv backend 0.27/5 fixes and 0.28pre. All work well.
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>>  I've been playing with Lakka (game emu focused) which I think is also
>> based on Kodi. It looks like Kodi charges extra for MPEG decoding. Is this
>> the case? Needed for Myth playback on Raspberry Pi 1/2?
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>  I don't think it is Kodi that is charging extra for mpeg2, but to get a
> license on the Rpi for hardware acceleration of mpeg2 you have to pay a
> license fee (I assume to Broadcom or to whoever does its graphics
> coprocessor).
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> What I'd like to know is how is 1080p playback in the MythTV tool on Kodi
> on the Raspberry Pi? Is the hardware acceleration add-on needed?
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>   Yes Hardware acceleration needed, but it does a fine job I am using one
as my frontend, the only hit for my movies is it will not bitstream the HD
codecs, like dts master HD etc..it will pull the core 5.1 out though.
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