(For any who don't know, Mythtv is an awesome TV recording and playback system and the Raspberry Pi is an Arm computer that is tiny and yet capable of 1080-line video output.)
Is it feasible to use the Raspberry Pi as a Mythtv frontend? It certainly has the graphics output facilities but I wonder how fast the Pi would find and read the video files.
Option 1: run the mythtv-frontend program on the Raspberry Pi. Would this work? Would it overload the Pi? I have recorded thousands of TV programmes and my current Core2 machine takes two or three seconds to carry out some tasks such as to build up and display the list of recordings.
Option 2: run something lightweight on the Pi and access the files directly. The video files are stored as standard mpegs that could be easily played but the file names are made up from the channel and the date of recording. The frontend would need some way to read the database to map the title and subtitle of recordings to the file name.
Any other options? Anyone using the Pi for this purpose?
James