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

Mark J. Small msmall at eastlink.ca
Mon Feb 2 20:22:45 UTC 2015


On February 2, 2015 08:02:56 PM Gary Buhrmaster wrote:

> 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).

So, even if the new Raspberry Pi 2 has a hardware decoder, Mythtv can't take 
advantage of it unless a skilled somebody writes some (complicated) code in 
mythfrontend to take advantage of it.

Mark



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