<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>I'm a bit bemused at this idea that RPi can't use "commonly available consumer video formats".... <br><br></div>IMO, there are only a few that matter.. <br>
<br></div>HD: h264, MPEG2, VC-1<br></div>SD: MPEG2, Xvid<br><br></div>A few minor variants, but really, how many do you use? <br><br></div>The Pi doesn't do MPEG2/VC-1 out of the box, you need a CODEC license for about $5 to do it. h264 is near flawless. CPU decode for XVid works fine at SD resolution, which is all I have in that format anyway. I can play 1080p@30Mbps BD rips fine. I did need to OC for software AC3/DTS conversion to stereo, but that might be solved now. UI is a bit slower than the old FE machines I used to use. But those needed massive heatsinks and/or fans to work at all. The Pi is silent, cheap, and easy to set up. <br>
<br></div>The UI is slower than the bigger boxes I used to run, but it's still perfectly usable. Even with all shows and metadata on the network, over the somewhat slow 100M ethernet link. <br><br></div>The only complaint I have is that recorded TV from my HDHR isn't quite as high quality, due to deinterlacers not being as good. It's acceptable though, and anything I want to keep I just run through a transcoder to do more accurate deinterlacing anyway. Channels that use 720p rather than 1080i are great though. <br>
<br></div>And I can bring another TV into the system for ~$50 (RPi, case, PSU, IR receiver). It can't run MythFE, but most of our needs are covered by XBMC. I use MythBE for recording, and MythicalLibrarian to export recordings over to the XBMC shares along with metadata, so they act just like archived shows. I do recording rules via MythWeb, and I don't do LiveTV, but there are ways to do that if I wanted to. I set it up on an older configuration, but we ended up not using it, so I didn't bother when I upgraded everything a while back. <br>
<br></div>It also has a few really nice Android remote control apps, and a full blown XBMC app. By copying a few files from one of the Pi devices, the Android version even accesses the shared database, metadata, etc.. <br>
<div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:14 AM, jedi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org" target="_blank">jedi@mishnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 10:03:46AM -0700, Thomas Mashos wrote:<br>
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Raymond Wagner <<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > On 5/8/2014 8:14 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 08:10 -0400, Greg Thompson wrote:<br>
> >>><br>
> >>><br>
> >>> I believe XBMC looks the same everywhere since they decided to use All<br>
> >>> OpenGL for their interface, rather than QT and a window manager...<br>
> >><br>
> >> And so yes, MythFE could copy that and shed baggage, etc., but again<br>
> >><br>
> >> with the shoulders of giants.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Every time that is suggested in earnest, it is met with all kinds of push<br>
> > back from users wanting to run on low end machines that don't have the GPU<br>
> > necessary to run OpenGL only.<br>
> ><br>
> > _______________________________________________<br>
><br>
> It's 2014. At some point these "low end machines" should be able to<br>
> run OpenGL right? I mean, are there lots of users that run MythTV on a<br>
> PIII?<br>
<br>
</div> I am waiting with great anticipation for these ARM based machines to<br>
become more capable than my ION1 hardware. I have quite literally gone<br>
through 3 generations of ARM based streamers so far and I don't really see<br>
any end in sight.<br>
<br>
That's the minimium bar that ARM hardware has to reach in order to be<br>
able to deal with the commonly available consumer video formats.<br>
<br>
[deletia]<br>
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