[mythtv-users] MythTV on Raspberry PI 2...

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
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> There was an extra license file you had to purchase to make use of the H.264
> decompression built into the GPU.

The extra license was to enable the MPEG-2 decoder.  The purchase price
included the H.264 decoder license.

For a FE, without licensed/enabled hardware VPU decoding, only the
most recent (and fastest) ARM devices even have a chance of software
decoding HD MPEG-2 or H.264 (SD, even some older devices can
manage).

As for any of the ARM SoCs out there, again, for a FE, it is all about
the decoding API availability (and what MythTV supports).  Which
means when the SoC fully supports VAAPI or VDPAU you might
be able to (slowly?) run a FE (or if you contribute support for another
API for MythTV).