[mythtv-users] 0.25 frontend on raspberry pi?

[Stephen P. Villano]

I wonder how the frontend would fare on a Cubox?
I have a pro model here, might play with it a bit if I get time.

On 9/17/13 7:36 PM, Evuraan wrote:
>> To summarize, it's not going to happen until someone writes OpenMAX support in MythTV, and then it's still not going to happen (on the 256MB version) until someone cleans up memory usage in the frontend, and then it still may be slow rendering things like Watch Recordings or the channel guide on larger systems.
>>
> thank you for explaining.
>
> //
> there are two major hurdles preventing use of mythfrontend on a Raspberry Pi.
>
> Mythfrontend will not run happily at high resolutions on a system with
> somewhere less than 200MB of system memory, which is what you have
> after the graphics core gets its fill.  A second generation unit has
> 512MB total (again minus the graphics core's take), which should
> alleviate this issue.
>
> Mythfrontend will not be useful on a system unless it can actually
> play back video, which either means sufficient CPU, or a usable
> hardware decoder.  The Raspberry Pi has nowhere near the former, and
> will not have the latter until someone spends the time writing an
> OpenMAX implementation for MythTV.
> //
>
> If the mountain doesn't, I am hoping cmyth gets much needed  deletion
> fu.. (Will settle for THAT!)
>
> but *why* is the FE so taxing?
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