[mythtv-gta]: Re:Raspberry PI vs. VIA APC vs. ?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 07:18:30AM -0400, Anthony de Boer wrote:
> I'd be worried that the next generation of Nvidia hardware will halt
> and catch fire if it detects you running Linux on it, after the great
> esteem Linus recently expressed for that firm.

Well someone did say the tegra 3 support just got pushed to the kernel.
Probably doesn't include the video accaleration bits though.

> The hardware codec would be the centrepiece of that, though: if you've
> got one then a very modest CPU can keep it fed with raw data, while if
> you don't then you need a fairly grunty CPU to do it in software.
> 
> And a box that can support some things in hardware and has to fall back
> to software for others falls off a cliff there performance-wise, so
> transcoding one's collection to something the hardware can handle might
> be an issue too.  I was at one point going to look into media servers
> that can transcode on the fly and run that on a beefy box somewhere off
> to the side.

Well so far I have only ever had x264 and MPEG2 for my mythtv recordings.
I am pretty sure it supports those.  I guess I will find out.

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Len Sorensen
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