<br><br>On Sunday, February 19, 2012, Nick Rout wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Mark Hutchinson <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'markhsa@gmail.com')">markhsa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Sunday, February 19, 2012, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:<br>
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>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 19:18, Raymond Wagner <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'raymond@wagnerrp.com')">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> ....<br>
>> > The big issue is playback. That puny little processor won't cut it for<br>
>> > much of anything, which leaves video decoding completely dependent on<br>
>> > the hardware decoder.<br>
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>> According to the various docs on their website, the shipping<br>
>> product has (only) licensed MPEG4/H.264 decoding from<br>
>> Broadcom to place in the binary blob driver. Depending on<br>
>> your location (and capture card), a fair amount of "TV" is<br>
>> broadcast in MPEG2 format (which was not licensed). So,<br>
>> unless you are using a HD-PVR to get MPEG4 content, or<br>
>> live in an area where "TV" is broadcast in MPEG4, you would<br>
>> either have to transcode everything, or do real-time transcoding<br>
>> to be able to take advantage of the hardware decoding<br>
>> capability (I suppose, in an idealized world, one might<br>
>> be able to do glitchless software decoding of low bit-rate<br>
>> MPEG2 content). Of course, there is more than just<br>
>> "TV" content available, and some is in MPEG4.<br>
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>> I, for one, look forward to the original petitioners code<br>
>> contributions for a working MythTV frontend to<br>
>> Raspberry Pi port.<br>
>><br>
>> Personally, I expect to see the current Raspberry Pi<br>
>> to be used more as a (more limited) media player<br>
>> than a full function front-end. There a lots of places<br>
>> where that is an excellent solution.<br>
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> Interesting. So as I use an hrpvr<br>
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yes but you also need a player with openMAX support.<br>
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</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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?</div>