[mythtv-users] Time to move to an HDMI stick for FEs?

[Larry Finger]

On 02/13/2015 03:37 AM, Paul Kendall wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
> <mailto:Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>> wrote:
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>     On 02/13/2015 12:12 AM, Paul Kendall wrote:
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>
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>         On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com
>         <mailto:thom.j.harris at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:thom.j.harris at gmail.__com <mailto:thom.j.harris at gmail.com>>> wrote:
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>              Was there ever a verdict from the early adopters of these?   Are
>         they usable
>              as MythTV frontends?
>
>              - Does audio work in Linux?
>              - Any video acceleration support with VAAPI?
>
>
>         They work as frontends quite well. There are some problems with them be
>         so new
>         though.
>         Audio over HDMI does not work as yet. i.e. the device is not recognized
>         at all.
>         The wireless works when you build a module from github.
>         The bluetooth is not recognized. It's part of the wireless networking chip.
>
>         VAAPI works well. I have an external USB soundcard plugged in and a USB
>         ethernet
>         and it's
>         a perfectly usable frontend. Pretty much all my content is h264 here in NZ.
>
>         I would however wait till audio is supported over HDMI before getting
>         another one.
>
>
>     What is the wireless chip in these devices?
>
>     Larry
>
>
> Realtek RTL8723BS The repository is https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs

If anyone wants to use the Bluetooth, there is a driver at 
http://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723au_bt.git. The 'troy' or 'kernel' branches are 
recommended. The latter is the driver soon to be submitted to the kernel. It 
will build on kernels 3.13 or newer. The 'troy' branch is the Realtek driver.

Larry