[mythtv-users] Configuration for Australia
Nick Rout
nick.rout at gmail.com
Wed Aug 13 00:59:09 UTC 2008
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com> wrote:
>
> 1. Please do not top quote
> 2. As others have stated, the problem is that there are no accelerated
> h264 decoders for linux. THe popcorn hour uses a dedicated chip for
> h264. This SHOULD change with the work intel is doing on a new video
> API, but that is still a ways off.
>
> Note that you CAN use a popcorn hour as a "video playing only"
> frontend via UPnP (sometimes buggy) or a fileshare. The popcorn
> hour's video output is not matched by any PC I've tried.
Isn't it time someone put one of these chipsets into a PCIe card with
an open driver?
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