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On Apr 20, 2014 3:15 AM, "Timothy Krantz" <<a href="mailto:tkrantz@stahurabrenner.com">tkrantz@stahurabrenner.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hello all,<br>
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> I know, here we go again, another question about low power front ends.<br>
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> 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>
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> 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>
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> 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>
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> 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>
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> 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>
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> Anyway, I *think* this may be the farthest anyone has gotten with one of these boards and I just wanted to share my experience.</p>
<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></p>
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