[mythtv-users] MythTV on Raspberry Pi 3B+?

[Per Jessen]

Hi all

I rarely have reason to fiddle much with MythTV, it has been working and
working, seven years now.  Kudos! 

I'm putting together a new system, for one thing to upgrade MythTV 0.25
to something more recent, for another to update my increasingly noisy
livingroom PC, hopefully also enabling everything for HDTV.  I figured
a Raspi Pi with accelerated H264 and MPEG2 would be the right thing. 

I have a system working (version 29, one backend, frontend on Raspi). So
far so good.  However, no video acceleration - not even for H264.  I'm
using openSUSE Leap 15.1.  I have bought and installed the MPEG2
license.

I'm getting conflicting reports - someone told me "omxplayer" is the
only player using hw acceleration, for instance.  Also that hw video
acceleration on 64bit doesn't work ?  That would obviously disqualify
the Raspi immediately, so I thought I would check with you guys here. 

Is the Raspi 3B+ a sensible/useful/good choice for a MythTV client or
not?  HDTV support required. 


thanks,

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Per Jessen, Zürich (5.1°C)