[mythtv-users] Logitech Revue (Google TV) is now $99 and will run Honeycomb, any good?

[Gabe Rubin]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Chris Petersen <lists at forevermore.net> wrote:
> On Aug 1, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>
> The CE4150 has a 400Mhz GPU based on the powervr SGX535,
> and has hardware decoding of the usual suspects (i.e. MPEG-2,
> VC-1, H.264, etc.), but last I looked, the linux SDK was not
> publically downloadable (you needed to sign a licensing agreement).
>
> Unfortunately, Android itself doesn't do MPEG-2, which means that MythTV
> would have to transcode everything to h.264 so it could be streamed to the
> device (something we can't legally do in the US, and something which can't
> really be done for LiveTV on most commodity hardware).

I understand the second part of technical limitation but there are
legal limitations on transcoding material that does not affect any
non-existent DRM?  I thought myth already supported similar things
(e.g., mythweb transcoding to use the flowplayer viewer) or am I
missing something here?