[mythtv-users] Possible tiny mythfrontend?

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Thu May 19 01:11:04 UTC 2011


On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> While myth can be quite good about supporting new acceleration methods
>> (viz, vdpau adoption) it sometimes isn't (viz crystal, which seems to
>> be taking longer).
>>
>
> Off topic, but worth clarifying: .24 contains CrystalHD support, and
> the only thing outstanding there is bugs with the driver/firmware
> which Myth devs have reported (multiple times) to the Broadcom devs
> with pretty much no response.  Broadcom's interest in making the linux
> driver work as well as the Windows one appears to have dried up.
> There's not much more we can do.

Thanks for that :)

I was under the impression it was gained from the fact that is
described in the 0.24 release notes as "Experimental Broadcom Crystal
HD hardware decoding support"

Possibly still experimental because the broadcom drivers are not up to snuff?


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