<br><br>On Sunday, February 19, 2012, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 19:18, Raymond Wagner <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'raymond@wagnerrp.com')">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>> wrote:<br>
....<br>
> The big issue is playback. That puny little processor won't cut it for<br>
> much of anything, which leaves video decoding completely dependent on<br>
> the hardware decoder.<br>
<br>
According to the various docs on their website, the shipping<br>
product has (only) licensed MPEG4/H.264 decoding from<br>
Broadcom to place in the binary blob driver. Depending on<br>
your location (and capture card), a fair amount of "TV" is<br>
broadcast in MPEG2 format (which was not licensed). So,<br>
unless you are using a HD-PVR to get MPEG4 content, or<br>
live in an area where "TV" is broadcast in MPEG4, you would<br>
either have to transcode everything, or do real-time transcoding<br>
to be able to take advantage of the hardware decoding<br>
capability (I suppose, in an idealized world, one might<br>
be able to do glitchless software decoding of low bit-rate<br>
MPEG2 content). Of course, there is more than just<br>
"TV" content available, and some is in MPEG4.<br>
<br>
I, for one, look forward to the original petitioners code<br>
contributions for a working MythTV frontend to<br>
Raspberry Pi port.<br>
<br>
Personally, I expect to see the current Raspberry Pi<br>
to be used more as a (more limited) media player<br>
than a full function front-end. There a lots of places<br>
where that is an excellent solution.<br>
<br>
Gary<br>
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</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Interesting. So as I use an hrpvr </div>