[mythtv-users] MythTV Raspberry Pi2 frontend testers

[Monkey Pet]

Will the RaspberryPi1 eventually work with mythfrontend? Is is the hardware
too constrained?  I have two sitting around and didn't want to buy a pi2
yet, unless I find a good use for these two first.

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Lawrence Rust <lvr at softsystem.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 13:45 +1100, Kingsley Turner wrote:
> > Mucked around today ... still waiting for my MPEG2/4 licence to arrive.
> >
> > I found that when I jumped forward/back during playback of a recorded
> stream
> > (MPEG2 video); even during video editing/clipping - sometimes I got a
> black
> > screen for a second or so.
> >
> > It kind-of looked like the screen refresh rate was going out-of-whack,
> but
> > I'm not sure.
>
> Yes, I've seen similar black screens very rarely while seeking and while
> starting or stopping playback.  I'm not sure of the cause yet - I
> suspect that there may be a temporary deadlock somewhere in the video
> playback loop, perhaps related to Qt event handling.
>
> BTW I have created a new RPi branch with the promised database
> optimisations.  Timing the startup latency shows a significant reduction
> from ~16 secs to ~5 seconds.  The RPi is using 802.11n WiFi and the
> BE/MySQL server is on Gigabit Ethernet.  It would be interesting to know
> if this alleviates your slow video gallery startup time.
>
> To checkout the code follow the instructions here
> http://www.softsystem.co.uk/download/mythtv/mythtv_for_rpi.txt
>
> but substitute the branch name 'fixes-0.27-rpi2-dbase'
>
> -- Lawrence Rust
>
>
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