[mythtv-users] Install mythfrontend in Android devices

[Eric Sharkey]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
> That's been "well discussed" on here before. The answer is generally, no you can't run Myth on this sort of device for one or more of the following reasons :
>
> 1) The devices often don't have enough RAM to run the OS and Myth Frontend.
> 2) The CPU generally doesn't have the grunt to do software decoding.
> 3) The GPU is generally "not documented" so that FOSS drivers can't be written/require binary drivers/don't have available drivers - ie there isn't the facility to use the GPU.
> 4) The GPU may have limited CODEC support - ie it will be restricted in what stream types it can handle.
> 5) Even if none of the above apply (which I don't believe is the case yet), it needs someone who understand all this stuff intimately to sit down and write all the code needed for Myth to use it.

I think the big one here is really #5.

There was a significant effort to get mythfrontend to run on the Maemo
platform back when it was relevant, but that hasn't been maintained as
far as I know.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=18270

Eric