[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi now ships with 512MB RAM

[Simon Hobson]

tortise wrote:
>If the R'Pi does H264 well, how hard would it be 
>to convert content such as mpeg2 et al to H264 
>on the backends, and serve it all freshly 
>converted up to run on R'Pi frontends? 
>Especially now with the mega Intel CPU 
>processing power now available?

If you are going to do that, why bother with a 
low power frontend (that's not powered up most of 
the time) as you'll be putting in a powerful 
backend that will need to be on all the time ? My 
backend can't do real-time transcoding anyway - 
when doing an H264 transcode for iPad it takes 
about 5-6 hours per hour of program for UK 
Freeview (DVB-T) SD recordings. But then it only 
takes 50W total, and effectively only cost me 
£140* plus the tuners (£20 or less off eBay) and 
drives (some of which I already had).

HP Microserver, £240 with £100 cashback offer that seems to never expire !
http://www.ebuyer.com/281915-hp-proliant-turion-ii-n40l-microserver-100-cashback-658553-421
I see they are now £250 but still with £100 
cashback. Mine is the earlier N36L version.


And as pointed out, you can buy an MPEG2 decoder licence for a pittance anyway.


I believe H264 and MPEG2 will account for the 
majority of media. But I can see your point where 
other formats are involved - isn't that (in part) 
what the HLS facility is about ?

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