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

[Tom Dexter]

On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 4:21 PM, Curtis Gedak <gedakc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Thanks! The thing about lack of subtitles with the MPEG2 license is
disappointing for sure.

Thanks again.
Tom