[mythtv-users] [mythtv] MythTV Raspberry Pi2 frontend testers

[Mark Perkins]

> On 18 Nov 2015, at 5:55 am, Lawrence Rust <lvr at softsystem.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> It's been a while since I last posted here but I've kept a watch on
> MythTV development and have seen lots of improvements.
> 
> Recently I acquired a few Raspberry Pi2's for a project and thought it
> might be challenging to get one working with Myth using the integrated
> video hardware.  I've noticed a few other users talking about this too.
> 
> I've had a Raspberry Pi2 running MythTV 0.27 frontend for about 6 weeks
> now and it feels fairly robust.  It uses the OpenMAX APIs to render
> video using the VideoCore hardware with hardware de-interlacing.  It
> also includes an optional OpenMAX MPEG decoder (£2 license required)
> that provides hardware decoding.  The OSD can either be softblend or EGL
> based OpenGL2.  It also supports visualisation, PiP and PbP.  Audio is
> best served via ALSA and there are 2 patches to make ALSA work nicely on
> a RPi2
> 
> The patches (32 in total) also include an OpenGLES2 based video renderer
> and OpenGL GUI although the GUI (based on Qt 5.4) is still a little
> flaky - the Qt GUI is much more stable.
> 
> If anyone would like to try it and provide some feedback then checkout
> the fixes-0.27-rpi2 branch from here:
> http://www.softsystem.co.uk/git/mythtv.git
> 
> The server is running on a RPi2 too so give it some time :-)
> 
> Cross build and runtime instructions for a Debian based host are here:
> http://www.softsystem.co.uk/download/mythtv/mythtv_for_rpi.txt
> 
> A pre-built archive (93MB) is available here:
> http://www.softsystem.co.uk/download/mythtv/mythtv-v0.27.5-74-g921a92e-RPI2.tar.bz2
> 
> To try this, after downloading on the RPi, follow the runtime
> instructions in mythtv_for_rpi.txt (above).
> 
> If there's a demand I could port the changes to current master too.
> 
> Comments and suggestions please.
> 
> -- Lawrence Rust
> 
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Is there any point to testing on the first version RPi? I have two that are currently idle.