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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hello all,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">know, here we go again</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, another question about low power front ends.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Well, not really. I ran across some notes that said there was now VDPAU for the sunxi/mali400</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> chip devices. It seems to sit on top of the “binary blob” drivers.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">So, I fired up my trusty hackberry board and installed Fedora 20, got it completely up to date with the latest kernel off of the sunxi site. 3.4.79ish. Followed all the instructions on installing</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“binary blob” drivers and fbturbo and finally VDPAU.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Then, being a masochist I downloaded the latest fixes .027 and went about compiling mythtv. Yes on the hackberry itself, I have not yet fiddled with cross compiling. I only compiled libs programs and yes it took forever. There was a syntax error in the ffmpeg portion. I found a pat</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ch for it in the ffmpeg forums and then it compiled ok. In fact everything compiled ok.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">So, I fired up mythfrontend. Damned if it did not come up. I set video play back to vdpau slim, audio to the hdmi device and went to play back a recording.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> I chose a very low file for my first test. A</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">recording</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“It takes a thief”. After some crackling, it played. Yep it played. Not perfectly. Not usably, but it played. Oddly it played too fast as if I had chosen to play it back at maybe 1.5 times normal. There was some video tearing but the VDPAU stuff is still very new, perhaps that will change. I can</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’t get the OSD to appear, not sure why. Choosing OpenGL for the painter gives a black screen (I fell</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">back to qt).</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Oh and playback continued with 30-50 percent idle processor. Audio seems to be sketchy, I will try it with the non-hdmi connecto</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">r</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> to see if that makes a difference.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Playing back higher quality digital programs</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> produced similar results. Attempts to playback recordings from my HDPVR resulted in a ball of scrambled pixels in the center of the screen.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Anyway, I *</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">think</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">* this may be the farthest anyone has gotten with one of these boards and I just wanted to share my experience.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Tim</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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