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

[Peter Bennett (cats22)]

On 11/18/2015 02:32 AM, Lawrence Rust wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 06:58 +1030, Mark Perkins wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>> Is there any point to testing on the first version RPi? I have two that are currently idle.
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> Hi Mark,
>
> There's no reason I can think of why it shouldn't work on a Rpi B, the
> VideoCore hardware and firmware are similar.  The GUI may be a bit slow
> but if it works it would prove the code's robustness.
>
> -- Lawrence Rust
>
It takes almost an hour to download -
I added it to my Dropbox
here is a link that will be faster
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45325311/mythtv-v0.27.5-74-g921a92e-RPI2.tar.bz2

Peter