[mythtv-users] Configuration for Australia

[Bill Williamson]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com> wrote:
>>
>> 1. Please do not top quote
>> 2. As others have stated, the problem is that there are no accelerated
>> h264 decoders for linux.  THe popcorn hour uses a dedicated chip for
>> h264.  This SHOULD change with the work intel is doing on a new video
>> API, but that is still a ways off.
>>
>> Note that you CAN use a popcorn hour as a "video playing only"
>> frontend via UPnP (sometimes buggy) or a fileshare.  The popcorn
>> hour's video output is not matched by any PC I've tried.
>
> Isn't it time someone put one of these chipsets into a PCIe card with
> an open driver?

If you have the capital you could do it.  The modifications sybas made
to ffmpeg to work with the hardware are (obviously) open and the chip
is available to pretty much anyone who wants to buy in bulk from what
i can tell.