<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Tyler T <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tylernt@gmail.com" target="_blank">tylernt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> I have no idea how well it works and I don't know what the interface is<br>
> like, I just happened upon this article today at lunch:<br>
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</div>There are in fact 3 media player distros for the Raspi: Xbian,<br>
OpenElec, and Raspbmc. I tried OpenElec, but it seems native myth://<br>
support in XBMC is currently broken (cmyth throws a<br>
"cmyth_rcv_old_int64: cmyth_rcv_u_long() failed" error). Since the<br>
error is in XBMC/cmyth I assume that Raspbmc and Xbian are broken too,<br>
but haven't had a chance to try them on my Pi yet.<br>
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As an alternative to the native support, there's also a MythBox<br>
"plugin" for XBMC. It's broken too (crashes on launch), but if you<br>
enable debug mode via the XBMC GUI you can then launch it and it<br>
appears to work ok from then on.<br>
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As an alternative to MythBox, I can play 1080i ATSC MPEG2 files over<br>
Samba (after I purchased the codec of course). Sadly there's a delay<br>
and a loud audio crackle every time you seek forward/back so it's not<br>
terribly usable.<br>
<br>
AFAIK there's no point in running the actual Myth FE on a Raspi, since<br>
Myth does not support OpenMAX (required for hardware-assisted video<br>
decoding).<br>
<br>
In short, Myth on Raspi is still in it's infancy. But I have high<br>
hopes for the future.<br>
_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><div><br>Looks like the delays on their ordering website are "six weeks or more", but I see units on ebay for about $50, maybe I'll buy one. It will go well sitting with the Neuros OSD box that has been in my closet since 2004.<br>
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