[mythtv-users] Quiet cheap frontend for 1080p

Pieter De Wit pieter at insync.za.net
Fri Oct 5 20:54:19 UTC 2012


On 6/10/2012 09:26, Fa wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com 
> <mailto:nick.rout at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     On Oct 6, 2012 7:52 AM, "Pieter De Wit" <pieter at insync.za.net
>     <mailto: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.
>
>
http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/06/13/hardware-packs-for-allwinner-a10-devices-and-easier-method-to-create-a-bootable-ubuntu-12-04-sd-card/

I think those include a new video driver now that "is support" - I'll 
check it out and see - Android TV can't be that bad either, for me at 
least :)
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