[mythtv-users] Atom-based Fit-PC frontend?

[Kyle Walker]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Jarod Wilson<jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Robin Smith wrote:
>
>> :(
>>
>>>> Anyone try a Fit-PC2 for a Myth frontend yet?
>>>
>>> Intel (but not really) GMA500 graphics. Aka, poulsbo BS with the PowerVR
>>> core that requires a crack-riddled binary-only driver that only halfway
>>> exists to do anything useful. Supposed to be able to do hardware decode
>>> of
>>> most common video codecs, but I'm not aware of anything (certainly not
>>> myth)
>>> that can take advantage of it yet.
>>>
>>> But otherwise, an amusing little box.

I was thinking of getting one of these for my bedroom TV, but it
wouldnt work very will with myth as of right now.

I have the GMA500 chip in my laptop.  There is a patch for mplayer
that enables the hardware video acceleration. I have played 1080p h264
with it.  Apparently there is a gstreamer plugin that ships with the
Dell laptops with GMA500 that will do it as well.

The mplayer patch is here...
http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/mplayer-vaapi/
As far as I can tell the only reason this hasn't made it into mplayer
proper is that they have not decided on where to do the abstraction
for the different hardware acceleration APIs... something myth is
going to have to deal with as well.