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

[Bert Haskins]

On 11/18/2015 7:29 PM, Craig Pratt wrote:
> On 11/18/15 4:09 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Peter Bennett (cats22) 
>> <cats22 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>     I installed it on Wheezy and it is working!
>>
>>     The video is a bit jerky, I suspect I may not have the mpeg2 licence
>>     correctly set up.
>>
>>     I am running it from a terminal inside the GUI.  One thing strange,
>>     after I exit I see it is trying to execute in bash all the keystrokes
>>     from when I was running mythtv. Temporarily adding a cat after the
>>     command that runs the frontend to catch those.
>>
>>     When playing a video that is widescreen with 4x3 monitor - there
>>     is junk
>>     left over in the top and bottom bars on the screen which would
>>     normally
>>     be black.
>>
>>
>> I noticed the jerky video too... but playing mpeg4 content from an 
>> HDPVR.  in my case I suspect it's because I am testing on a monitor 
>> rather than a TV, so it has no sound to sync with.
>>
> Is MPEG4/AVC accelerated on the Pi2? I recall the original Pi had a 
> MP4/AVC hardware /encoder/ but no hardware /decoder/. Wondering if 
> that's something they remedied on the Pi2 (and if MythTV can use it). 
> Specifically, I'd love to be able to playback content transcoded via 
> the SD HD HomeRun.
>
>> But I did notice that the UI is a bit slow.  Was doing some research 
>> on adjusting the memory split to assign more to the GPU to see if it 
>> helps any.
>>
>> But overall, I would say that this is a huge win... thank you 
>> Lawrence and anyone else who contributed.
>>
> Ditto. This is a great development. Thanks!
>
>
>
I would like to have a RPi 1 as a mythtv backend.
The target TV has an always on USB port so this could be a great low 
power BE.
Does anyone have anything like that up and running?
Thanks,
   Bert
>
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