[mythtv-users] Pi Compute Module 4 as possible Frontend with Graphics Card in PCI Express x1 Socket on IO Board

[Charlie Myth]

Hello MythTV folk

The announcement yesterday of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-compute-module-4/) together
with the Compute Module 4 IO Board got me thinking.... This new module "*drops
the USB 3.0 interface for a PCI Express interface*" (
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-compute-module-4-review),
which is available on the IO Board. So, theoretically, we could plug in a
X1 (rare) graphics card in (e.g. the ZOTAC GeForce GT 710 mentioned in
Jeff's article) and *if you could get some drivers* see if VDPAU/NVDEC
works on that for the deinterlace stuff (or am I so behind that this is a
non-problem on the pi frontends these days?). I understand the drivers
would probably be the sticking point as Nvidia release the closed source
ones for x86.....but it seems that they have "Linux 32 bit ARM drivers on
their site.

Just a thought, for a small quiet frontend...

What do you think?

C
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