[mythtv] MythTV Raspberry Pi2 frontend testers

Lawrence Rust lvr at softsystem.co.uk
Fri Dec 11 19:49:02 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 22:23 +0100, Karl Dietz wrote:
> On 09.12.2015 21:48, Lawrence Rust wrote:
> >
> > Off-loading audio decoding is going to take some significant changes in
> > avformatdecoder since the current structure assumes that ffmpeg will
> > always decode the audio stream.  It's not impossible but it needs
> > careful thought.
> 
> Just a random thought. We have switching between digital passthrough for
> normal speed and decoding/re-encoding for slower/faster playback.
> Maybe it is an option to have a three-way AudioOutputAlsaWithOpenMAX
> that switches between HDMI passthrough, OpenMAX decoding and software
> decoding?
> 
> See void MythPlayer::syncWithAudioStretch()
> https://code.mythtv.org/doxygen/classMythPlayer.html#a0f3ae4919486ce5df5381351964588b0

Thanks for the suggestion.  (Ab)using passthrough is probably the path
of least resistance.

-- 
Lawrence



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