[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi as remote transcoder

[Yeechang Lee]

Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> says:
> Gavin Hurlbut has been working on a hardware accelerated commercial
> flagger, using VDPAU for decoding, and OpenCL for video
> processing.

While I wish Gavin luck with this ambitious effort--not least because
doing so would help lead to hardware-assisted transcoding--isn't
commflagging a more or less solved problem from a computational
standpoint?[1] With the experimental option enabled to permit the
commflagger to work on abridged data, I see speeds in the 120-140 fps
range for not-yet-finished high-definition recordings--i.e., the
flagger is spending 75% of its time waiting for more video--and 1000
fps for completed HD recordings, all on six years-old hardware.

[1] I said "computational", not functional! I know that non-US/Canada
MythTV users don't yet really benefit from commflagging.

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