[mythtv] MythTV on Qt4/Embedded

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Mon Jun 28 14:37:11 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 17:21 +0300, Caglar Akyuz wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Forgive me if my questions are already answered somewhere but a quick search 
> in list archives and Wiki didn't return any recent results.
> 
> I want to port/run MythTV frontend on an embedded system(ARM) and I have 2 
> questions in mind:
> 
> 1) Can we run Qt4 backend without X? IOW, is it possible to use Qt4 backend 
> without running X server and using Qt embedded's builtin server QWS?

The backend doesn't need X, don't know anything about QWS.

> 2) I want use GStreamer for all multimedia operations due to hardware 
> acceleration. Is this doable?

Not really. Anything is doable of course, but gstreamer simply isn't a
good fit.

-- Daniel



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