[mythtv-users] Biting the bullet...new frontend recommendations

[Curtis Gedak]

On 2018-05-08 06:41 AM, Tom Dexter wrote:
> 
> Thanks for all the suggestions! I've seen a lot mentioned here about
> the RPI and had never really looked into it at all. Interesting that
> it plays 1080 well. I see that they have only their own built in
> graphics of course. I'm assuming all the decoding and deinterlacing is
> done with the CPU? What deinterlacing do you use for 1080i?
> 
> Thanks!
> Tom


The Raspberry Pi can use the GPU for decoding if one purchases and
installs the MPEG2 license key.

For newer MythTV (e.g., 0.29) releases see:

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi


If you are running the older MythTV 0.27 release (which I'm still using)
then see also:

Setting Up an Inexpensive Raspberry Pi 2 as a Cheap Frontend to MythTV
with MythFrontend
http://gedakc.users.sourceforge.net/display-doc.php?name=pvr-rpi-mythtv-frontend

Curtis