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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/19/2014 07:47 PM, Nick Rout
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On Apr 20, 2014 3:15 AM, "Timothy Krantz" <<a
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> Hello all,<br>
><br>
> I know, here we go again, another question about low power
front ends.<br>
><br>
> Well, not really. I ran across some notes that said there
was now VDPAU for the sunxi/mali400 chip devices. It seems to
sit on top of the “binary blob” drivers.<br>
><br>
> 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 “binary blob” drivers and fbturbo and
finally VDPAU.<br>
><br>
> 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 patch for it in the ffmpeg forums
and then it compiled ok. In fact everything compiled ok.<br>
><br>
> 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. I chose a very low
file for my first test. A recording of “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’t get the OSD to appear,
not sure why. Choosing OpenGL for the painter gives a black
screen (I fell back to qt). Oh and playback continued with
30-50 percent idle processor. Audio seems to be sketchy, I will
try it with the non-hdmi connector to see if that makes a
difference.<br>
><br>
> Playing back higher quality digital programs produced
similar results. Attempts to playback recordings from my HDPVR
resulted in a ball of scrambled pixels in the center of the
screen.<br>
><br>
> Anyway, I *think* this may be the farthest anyone has
gotten with one of these boards and I just wanted to share my
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<p>Fantastic work. </p>
<p>The low power arm market is pretty full. I see a hackberry is
US$65 plus case, power supply, maybe needs remote control
hardware too?</p>
<p>For $100 you can get an Amazon FireTV, sideload XBMC, use the
pvr client and also have access to Netflix, Amazon prime, and
all the other goodies. </p>
<p>Not trying to detract from your efforts, just saying ...<br>
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> Tim<br>
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What I would like to see is a Mythweb client that I could program
once a week<br>
to faithfully record the shows that I now forget to record.<br>
If this could be done from one of my many stm32 discovery cards..<br>
as in HDHR -> SSD (low power - low heat) that would be great.<br>
Sorry but I'm just not happy running rotating media 24/7.<br>
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