[mythtv-users] CrystalHD card now at $53 at Logic Supply for US buyers

[Scott D. Davilla]

>On 3/1/10 2:24 PM, Scott D. Davilla wrote:
>>>On 3/1/10 2:12 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
>>>>On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Douglas 
>>>>Choma<doug at polaritylabs.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I just noticed these posts regarding the Crystal HD.  Is this something
>>>>>that's usable in the current Myth trunk?
>>>>>
>>>>>I bought one on ebay last month to play around with xbmc.  But if it can
>>>>>work in Myth... even better.  :-)
>>>>>
>>>>Not yet. Should work in xbmc though, but I am not sure what version of
>>>>xbmc you need.
>>>>
>>>Bummer.  I wonder if it's on the roadmap at all.  From my limited 
>>>research, I guess they already works with trunk versions of 
>>>Mplayer and VLC?  So it would be possible to use it within some 
>>>parts of Myth.  But the real show stopper would be using it for FE 
>>>playback.
>>
>>Actually Mplayer devs punted and said to look for ffmpeg devs to 
>>pick it up. VCL devs said, no time/money to consider. There is one 
>>ffmpeg dev working on integration with vaapi but nothing being done 
>>in ffmpeg svn.
>
>Wow!  So how does XBMC support it?  I sorta figured XBMC was built 
>using ffmpeg (or similar).  XBMC looks really amazing... I just wish 
>the LiveTV integration with Myth was dialed in.

We use ffmpeg to demux, then a crystalhd class to handle the device 
itself. A class based off our ffmpeg decoder class (ffmpeg decoder 
wrapper) deals with interfacing the device with our video player 
class. There are still some quirks under OSX but Linux side seems to 
be working well. 1080p on the AppleTV with 30-40 percent CPU usage.