<div dir="ltr">in case it helps anyone in the future, I found the solution to this -- just went into synaptic and installed xbuntu-restricted-extras (xbuntu because I'm on xfce). Should have thought of that earlier!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 January 2015 at 00:01, Tony Gould <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:antonyjgould+myth@gmail.com" target="_blank">antonyjgould+myth@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 dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 January 2015 at 15:11, 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:18:07PM +0000, Tony Gould wrote:<br>
> hi, I've just bought an asus chromebook, Asus C300MA 13.3-inch<br>
> Chromebook (Intel Celeron N2830 2.42GHz, 2GB RAM, 32GB Storage,<br>
</span>> WLAN, BT, Webcam, Integrated Graphics, Google Chrome) <<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00K7YAT1O/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00K7YAT1O/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1</a>>,<br>
<span>> and I've installed ubuntu 12.04 via crouton (see, e.g., <a href="http://lifehacker.com/how-to-install-linux-on-a-chromebook-and-unlock-its-ful-509039343" target="_blank">http://lifehacker.com/how-to-install-linux-on-a-chromebook-and-unlock-its-ful-509039343</a>).<br>
><br>
> Does anyone have any ideas as to whether a mythtv frontend might<br>
> work ok? I'm only recording SD on my backend, and I have a frontend<br>
<br>
</span> I've got one of the recent ASUS chrome boxes and it seems to have<br>
enough horsepower. There is an installer app provided by Intel that<br>
makes updating the GPU driver pretty easy. VAAPI seems to work well in<br>
other apps. Although I haven't tested a current version mythtv.<br>
<br>
It's running Ubuntu 14.04.<br>
<br>
SD-only really makes things a lot easier.<br>
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<div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">thanks for all the encouragement everyone. I had a go at installing it and it seems to work ok except when I play recordings I get "mythtv video frame buffering failed too many times", and as a bonus there is another error box about audio. I don't really know where to go with this. I'm on the 0.27 fixes code (mythbuntu repo). Any ideas?<div><br></div></div></div>
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