[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi suitability for MythFrontend

[Mark Hutchinson]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Mark Hutchinson <markhsa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sunday, February 19, 2012, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2/19/2012 16:52, Mark Hutchinson wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Which players have open max support?   So if a person uses an hdpvr to
> >> > capture all content as I do,  would myth frontend work well then?
> >> >  With which decoder?
> >>
> >> As explained, no.  MythTV does not support OpenMAX.
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> > I hope this gets developed.  The amount of 100+ watt frontends replaced
> by a
> > 3 watt machine would save serious $ overall. Standardized hardware like
> the
> > pi could be just the ticket. One optimized download for myth frontend on
> > known hardware. Massive advantages.
> > I would view this as a critical move forward.
>
> As I think Raymond was explaining, it is not just playback that is
> needed. Myth themes use up a heap of ram. Ram is cheap on x86/amd64
> machines, not so on Raspberry Pi etc.
>
> I think therefore that R pi is unlikely to make a good frontend if you
> want to run mythfrontend.
>
> It may work well as a uPnP or xbmc based frontend, in the same way as
> a WD Live or Popcornhour and other STB's can be used as a front end.
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OK.  So if XBMC can do it, my can't Myth?  Are the themes that much more
intensive and such?
Not being sarcastic at all, I just really don't know.  I am not a coder.  I
am just really interested in saving power and optimized software for
standardized hardware is always a good match I would think?  Just a
possible opportunity.
I know it would take off huge if people could get a $25 or so fronted for
myth.  Maybe this is not the device, but you will see major acceptance of
this device I suspect for many projects.

dd an image onto a flash drive for RPi and off to the races.  It would be
huge.
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