On 1 October 2012 08:21, Dave vdr@pickles.me.uk wrote:
On 30/09/12 23:04, Laurence Abbott wrote:
On 30 September 2012 19:50, Davevdr@pickles.me.uk wrote:
I'm using VOMP on Raspberry Pi as my main output device. The OSD is still work-in-progress but all the VOMP features are working and TV quality is fine (though I haven't used HD yet).
Oooo...interesting. I'm currently using an Ion ITX board for my front-end using xineliboutput. It works but the frontend needs restarting many times a day which gets a tad annoying! I@m very tempted to sort something else out and at 25-quid or so, a Raspberry Pi sounds like it could be my next thing to try!
You also need to buy a licence code to enable the GPU decoder for MPEG-2 at £2.40 (MPEG-4 is already enabled).
Slightly annoying but not a deal-breaker.
I've got a couple of MediaMVPs that I use occasionally with VOMP but I didn't realise much was still being done on the development of it. I can't find much on t'internet about VOMP on the Pi, though, apart form the git repository and the forum.
Does VOMP run the same on the Pi as on the MediaMVPs, i.e. totally separate frontend with it's own remote? What remote receivers are supported?
It currently uses CEC, ie passthrough from the TV over HDMI, and so uses the TV's remote. Of course not all TV remotes are the same, and different TVs have different ideas about which buttons to pass through...
Oooo...not come across CEC before: will have to look into it...
I see that OSD is a work-in-progress but presumably it will be its own OSD (like the MediaMVPs) rather than "forwarding" the standard vdr OSD. The thing I always missed from the MediaMVPs was the inability to interact with plugins like epgsearch.
At the price of these things, I suspect I'll be getting one to test this anyway! And I suspect lots of people who bought them initially have discovered that they are not quite the computing experience they expected and will be moving them on cheaply...!
;-)
Cheers,
Laz