[mythtv-users] mythtv on Raspberry 4 4GB with 64 bit OS's

[Greg Oliver]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 8:04 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
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> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 8:58 PM Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com>
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>> *From:* Jim Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Friday, 28 August 2020 1:48 am
>> *To:* Discussion about MythTV
>> *Subject:* [mythtv-users] mythtv on Raspberry 4 4GB with 64 bit OS's
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>> I got mythbackend and mythfrontend working on a RPi4 4GB running from a
>> SSD using both Raspberry Pi OS (aarch64) and Ubuntu 20.04 aarch64.
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>> However, to my eyes it made no difference. To me the RPI4 is still a
>> marginal frontend for USA OTA mpeg2 video.  If the scene motion
>> increases the picture gets more jerky. Maybe at some point ffmpeg on
>> aarch64 can make improvements.
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>> So for now for a cheap system but great video quality, I'd pick RPI4
>> 4GB, USB3 SSD, with HDHR Quatro tuner for the backend and FireTV 4K for
>> the frontend.
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>> Jim A
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>> I haven't been following closely- does the RPI4 need the additional mpeg2
>> licence purchased / enabled or is that only earlier versions?
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> No HW support for mpeg2 in RPI4 and therefore no license available.
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> JimA
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>From everything I have previously read, there is enough CPU in it to handle
ATSC with 0 issues.  Do you have a playback profile with 4 cpus allocated
and the opengl or kernel deinterlacer set?
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