[mythtv-users] [mythtv] MythTV Raspberry Pi2 frontend testers

[William Jacoby]

On 11/18/2015 6:29 PM, Craig Pratt wrote:
> On 11/18/15 4:09 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Peter Bennett (cats22) 
>> <cats22 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>     I installed it on Wheezy and it is working!
>>
>>     The video is a bit jerky, I suspect I may not have the mpeg2 licence
>>     correctly set up.
>>
>>     I am running it from a terminal inside the GUI.  One thing strange,
>>     after I exit I see it is trying to execute in bash all the keystrokes
>>     from when I was running mythtv. Temporarily adding a cat after the
>>     command that runs the frontend to catch those.
>>
>>     When playing a video that is widescreen with 4x3 monitor - there
>>     is junk
>>     left over in the top and bottom bars on the screen which would
>>     normally
>>     be black.
>>
>>
>> I noticed the jerky video too... but playing mpeg4 content from an 
>> HDPVR.  in my case I suspect it's because I am testing on a monitor 
>> rather than a TV, so it has no sound to sync with.
>>
> Is MPEG4/AVC accelerated on the Pi2? I recall the original Pi had a 
> MP4/AVC hardware /encoder/ but no hardware /decoder/. Wondering if 
> that's something they remedied on the Pi2 (and if MythTV can use it). 
> Specifically, I'd love to be able to playback content transcoded via 
> the SD HD HomeRun.
>
>
Originally the Raspberry Pi Foundation, thought the license only covered 
the decoder. I think around the time they upped from 256mb to 512mb, 
they realized that they had misinterpreted the license, and the adjusted 
the firmware to also do encoding. So the original Pi's also do both.
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