Hi,
Now that Raspberry Pis are quite common, cheap (~£25) and easily acquired (I received my order within 2 days from Farnell) has anyone considered whether it might be feasible to put together an output plugin for VDR for it? It is now possible to play MPEG-2 (with a codec license costing £2.40) as well as 1080p H.264 with hardware acceleration.
There is work on VOMP (previously on Hauppauge MediaMVP) to work as a VDR client on the Pi and as far as I can see quite a lot of progress has been made. I'm wondering whether it would be possible to run VDR with HDMI video / audio output on one of these too and given the work done so far on VOMP and XBMC how difficult it would be to create an output plugin?
Cheers,
Morfsta
Den 30.09.2012 20:03, skrev Morfsta:
OpenELEC (XBMC distro) has RPI images, and the latest builds also has XVDR support built in. I have installed it, but haven't had the time to test it yet.
I have my RPI connected to the USB of the TV, which means it powers up when I switch the TV on. With CEC the rmote works... And now with XVDR (and appropriate codecs) things should become pretty complete.
Den 30.09.2012 20:19, skrev Vidar Tyldum:
OpenELEC (XBMC distro) has RPI images, and the latest builds also has XVDR support built in. I have installed it, but haven't had the time to test it yet.
Got to test it tonight. Both SD and HD works perfectly (at least the 30 minutes I watched). For audio I use passthrough - anything else might give you headaches as the CPU might not be able to decode it in a timely manner.
On 30/09/12 19:03, Morfsta 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).
Running VDR directly on the Pi might be more difficult. The savings that were made to keep the cost down mean that USB relies heavily on software, also Ethernet is handled via the USB controller. A USB TV receiver, plus a USB hard disk plus perhaps a remote TV player via ethernet may be too much for the device to handle.
On 30 September 2012 19:50, Dave vdr@pickles.me.uk wrote:
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!
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?
Definitely looks like something to follow, though...
Laz
I'm interested in running VDR on raspberry pi as well. It seems like I remember mention that if someone sent a raspberry pi to the author of softhddevice, he would add support for it. I could be wrong though. A dedicated plugin may be harder to do than to add support into something like softhddevice.
On 30/09/12 23:04, Laurence Abbott wrote:
You also need to buy a licence code to enable the GPU decoder for MPEG-2 at £2.40 (MPEG-4 is already enabled).
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...
Dave
On 1 October 2012 08:21, Dave vdr@pickles.me.uk wrote:
Slightly annoying but not a deal-breaker.
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
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