<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 December 2011 03:49, Erik Jensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eriksjunk@laurelwoodart.com">eriksjunk@laurelwoodart.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Raymond Wagner <<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 12/22/2011 17:47, Per Hatlevik wrote:<br>
>>> I don't know about the frontend though. It would need good video drivers<br>
>>> (very rare on ARM) that are supported by myth for any sort of acceleration.<br>
>>> That seems unlikely for now.<br>
>> if the video card on these arm systems supports decoding then they<br>
>> seem like a really nice frontend to me. tegra2 or tegra3 from nvidia<br>
>> look like they possibly support vdpau but i can't really find an<br>
>> concrete information on whether they do or don't support vdpau.....<br>
><br>
> The VDPAU interface is only available for the x86 architecture. On ARM,<br>
> nVidia and several other manufacturers have embraced the OpenMAX<br>
> specification (from the OpenGL people) for media acceleration. There is<br>
> interest among some of the video developers in adding support for it in<br>
> MythTV, and at least one who has considerable experience using it, but<br>
> no work as yet of actually implementing it.<br>
<br>
</div>What magnitude of effort would implementing OpenMAX be?<br>
<br>
I'm interested in getting a MythFrontend working on the upcoming $35<br>
Raspberry Pi model B, an ARM board that uses OpenMAX for video<br>
acceleration. It seems like it would make a great front end. (HDMI<br>
out, 1080p video, ethernet, USB, boots from an SD card, powered via a<br>
micro USB connector, draws just a few Watts)<br>
<div><div></div><br></div></blockquote></div>I'm interested in the Raspberry Pi as well, for a Mythfrontend or even just something able to play from upnp. Be a very nice very cheap box to stick to the back of the TVs.<br>
<br>Getting back on topic though, I mentioned on here last year that I had installed debian and Mythtv on a Pogoplug to run as my Master backend.<br><br>I was advised by several people on here that it was not a good idea due to the processing required by the rescheduler processes, and that they would take a lot longer.<br>
<br>I changed tack, and my Myth Master is still the power hungry dual-core AMD, but it now shuts down when not required, and the Pogoplug acts as a "wake-on-lan concierge". When Myth shuts down it writes the wakeup time to the pogoplug, which then executes WakeonLan at the desired time.<br>
<br>This was all due to the motherboard not doing wakeup correctly on it's own.Works well for me, and it has reduced my bills significantly.<br>