[mythtv] MythTV Raspberry Pi2 frontend testers

[Peter Bennett]

On 11/24/2015 07:20 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015, 4:15 PM Chris Weiland <chrisjweiland at gmail.com
> <mailto:chrisjweiland at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     First, thank you SO much for creating this.
>
>     Second, the configure script doesn't appear to be enabling openmax
>     support.  I'm not sure what's preventing it from finding it.  In
>     past experience, this meant that I needed to install a package
>     from apt, but I should already have everything I need to compile
>     in openmax support since I was developing this as well.
>
>     Do you know what I might be missing?  I'm trying the 27-fixes
>     branch if that helps.
>
>     On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Peter Bennett
>     <pgbennett at comcast.net <mailto:pgbennett at comcast.net>> wrote:
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>         On 11/17/2015 02:24 PM, Lawrence Rust wrote:
>         > It's been a while since I last posted here but I've kept a
>         watch on
>         > MythTV development and have seen lots of improvements.
>         >
>         > Recently I acquired a few Raspberry Pi2's for a project and
>         thought it
>         > might be challenging to get one working with Myth using the
>         integrated
>         > video hardware.  I've noticed a few other users talking
>         about this too.
>         >
>         > I've had a Raspberry Pi2 running MythTV 0.27 frontend for
>         about 6 weeks
>         > now and it feels fairly robust.  It uses the OpenMAX APIs to
>         render
>         > video using the VideoCore hardware with hardware
>         de-interlacing.  It
>         > also includes an optional OpenMAX MPEG decoder (£2 license
>         required)
>         > that provides hardware decoding.  The OSD can either be
>         softblend or EGL
>         > based OpenGL2.  It also supports visualisation, PiP and
>         PbP.  Audio is
>         > best served via ALSA and there are 2 patches to make ALSA
>         work nicely on
>         > a Rpi2
>         >
>         > The patches (32 in total) also include an OpenGLES2 based
>         video renderer
>         > and OpenGL GUI although the GUI (based on Qt 5.4) is still a
>         little
>         > flaky - the Qt GUI is much more stable.
>         >
>         > If anyone would like to try it and provide some feedback
>         then checkout
>         > the fixes-0.27-rpi2 branch from here:
>         > http://www.softsystem.co.uk/git/mythtv.git
>         >
>         > The server is running on a Rpi2 too so give it some time :-)
>         >
>         > Cross build and runtime instructions for a Debian based host
>         are here:
>         > http://www.softsystem.co.uk/download/mythtv/mythtv_for_rpi.txt
>         >
>         > A pre-built archive (93MB) is available here:
>         >
>         http://www.softsystem.co.uk/download/mythtv/mythtv-v0.27.5-74-g921a92e-RPI2.tar.bz2
>         >
>         > To try this, after downloading on the Rpi, follow the runtime
>         > instructions in mythtv_for_rpi.txt (above).
>         >
>         > If there's a demand I could port the changes to current
>         master too.
>         >
>         > Comments and suggestions please.
>         >
>         > -- Lawrence Rust
>         >
>         >
>
>
>         This is great news. I currently have two RPI2's running Kodi
>         and the
>         mythtv pvr plugin - which works but with some problems and
>         restrictions.
>         The real MythTV frontend would be so much better. I will try
>         it out.
>
>         Thanks
>         Peter
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> I'd like to know this as well. I've been attempting to get this
> packaged and in a ppa so we can get more testers, but I believe I'll
> need to repackage the openmax libraries first. I've been using the
> ones packaged by the Ubuntu mate team but it installed the libraries
> in a non-standard location
>
> -- 
> Thomas Mashos
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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Just one question - are there PPA's for Raspberry Pi Debian?  Currently
the pre-built version I installed is for Debian Wheezy, but Debian has
now moved to Jessie so that is probably a better version to target.

I am testing the prebuilt wheezy version and it looks good.

Peter
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