[mythtv-users] Quiet cheap frontend for 1080p

Fa fayoeu at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 20:26:05 UTC 2012


On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Oct 6, 2012 7:52 AM, "Pieter De Wit" <pieter at insync.za.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/10/2012 07:48, MonkeyPet wrote:
> >>
> >> I am looking for turnkey solution.  I have the raspberry pi that can
> run xbmc and do hardware decoding at 1080p, but it will never run the
> mythfrontend since it is lacking enough ram and a fast cpu.
> >
> >
> > Same here - this device has 1gig of RAM and *can* run Ubuntu....have a
> look at the specs and google it a bit. From what I see, the "turnkey" part
> will be:
> >
> > * Flash SDCard with ubuntu
> > * Insert SDCard
> > * Boot device
> > * apt-get install mythfrontend
> > * Connect to backend
> > * Done
> >
>
> You missed "find a video acceleration that will work with MythTV."
>
> Most ARM systems use openmax for acceleration. Myth does not support
> openmax.
>

Yup, that's the reason why my raspberry pi won't be a turnkey solution for
a mythfrontend.


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