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

[Peter Bennett]

On 05/08/2018 08:41 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?
Decoding and deinterlacing are done in the GPU. It supports advanced 
deinterlacing in the GPU so in that regard it is better than most. As 
far as subtitles are concerned, I believe it is only USA broadcast 
subtitles that do not work. You can run a job after recording to extract 
the subtitles to a file and then the raspberry pi can show them. This 
does not work for LiveTV, obviously, because the subtitles will only be 
available after completion of recording and running the job.

Peter