<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 8:04 PM James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 8:58 PM Mark Perkins <<a href="mailto:perkins1724@hotmail.com" target="_blank">perkins1724@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="border:medium none;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm" dir="auto"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Jim Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com" target="_blank">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 28 August 2020 1:48 am<br>
<b>To:</b> Discussion about MythTV<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mythtv-users] mythtv on Raspberry 4 4GB with 64 bit OS's<br>
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<div dir="auto">I got mythbackend and mythfrontend working on a RPi4 4GB running from a
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<div dir="auto">SSD using both Raspberry Pi OS (aarch64) and Ubuntu 20.04 aarch64.</div>
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<div dir="auto">However, to my eyes it made no difference. To me the RPI4 is still a
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<div dir="auto">marginal frontend for USA OTA mpeg2 video. If the scene motion
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<div dir="auto">increases the picture gets more jerky. Maybe at some point ffmpeg on
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<div dir="auto">aarch64 can make improvements.</div>
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<div dir="auto">So for now for a cheap system but great video quality, I'd pick RPI4
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<div dir="auto">4GB, USB3 SSD, with HDHR Quatro tuner for the backend and FireTV 4K for
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<div dir="auto">the frontend.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I haven't been following closely- does the RPI4 need the additional mpeg2 licence purchased / enabled or is that only earlier versions? </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No HW support for mpeg2 in RPI4 and therefore no license available.</div><div><br></div><div>JimA</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">From everything I have previously read, there is enough CPU in it to handle ATSC with 0 issues. Do you have a playback profile with 4 cpus allocated and the opengl or kernel deinterlacer set?<br></div></div></div>