[mythtv-users] AMD GPUs / Openelec

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On 7 March 2013 16:18, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:

>
>  Right.  But these particular boxes were being sold as "XBMC appliance"s.
>>>  I'm presuming that meant Linux.  Does XBMC have a Windows port?
>>>
>>> Does that mean that these were being sold as "sucky" XBMC appliances,
>>> maybe only capable of SD content?
>>>
>>
> I hope I changed the subject correctly.
>
>
>> I run my setup as a combined Myth FE/BE and can switch between XBMC and
>> MythFE. Personally I prefer XBMC for Movies/TV shows/Youtube etc but even
>> with the new MythTV Plugin I still prefer MythFE for playing and managing
>> my TV recordings....but that's another story.
>>
>> As for the hardware, it is bundled with Openelec (Open Embedded Linux
>> Entertainment Center). Which is basically a very minimal Linux Distro that
>> boots straight into XBMC to give you an XBMC media centre out of the box. I
>> simply use Mythbuntu with XBMC also installed but have had a play with
>> openelec recently. It is very controlled in terms of if (for example) a TV
>> card driver is not supported you cannot install it yourself. They lock it
>> down to make sure everything works and they dont have support/compatability
>> issues. I dont want to get into an argument about the rights and wrongs of
>> doing so but what I am getting at is, I cant believe Openelec are going to
>> endorse on their website (which is how I found this link) a piece of
>> hardware that cant support what XBMC supports (Full 1080p HD video content).
>>
>
> Looking at the forums on Openelec, it appears that they do support AMD
> GPU's, however there are some pretty serious caveats.  No MPEG2/4
> acceleration,  only PCM over HDMI.  So essentially, if your content is
> limited to h264 and you don't want HD audio, I guess you would be ok.
>
>
>> I've not got one, I haven't tried one but if I was ion need of another
>> box I probably would
>>
>
> I'm still not sure that I would take the plunge... even if they get the
> limitations fixed, AMD doesn't have much of a track record of long term
> support for linux... they would probably break it again before they
> improved on it.
>
>
I use audio over optical so the HDMI bit is a non-issue for me but fair and
valid points thank you! I'm not planning on buying one I must admit as I
dont need any more hardware. I guess if it was Atom/ION then it would be a
great buy :-) Maybe one day!

Martin
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