[mythtv-users] Intel NUC i3 as a frontend?

[Justin Johnson]

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Kenni Lund <kenni at kelu.dk> wrote:

> 2013/5/26 Justin Johnson <justin.johnson3 at gmail.com>:
> > It's what I'm currently using as a frontend only. It works pretty well.
> All
> > my experience is with FFMPEG playback; I attempted to get VAAPI working
> but
> > didn't have great success.
>
> Good to know. Of curiosity, did you try to setup the drivers with the
> new Intel Driver Manager? It appears that some people have greater
> success with VAAPI and the graphics stack from new installer.
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMyNDQ
>
> > I'm not sure about the limited audio capabilities you mention, is this
> the
> > fact that it cannot output multi-channel PCM? There is a setting in the
> > frontend somewhere to always re-encode to dolby. This is how I use multi
> > channel audio.
>
> No, I was simply talking about the lack of physical connections :) I
> would have prefered if it was possible to connect the frontend
> directly to my DAC or my amplifier.
>
> Thanks,
> Kenni
>

Yes, I did use the Intel Driver Manager, before finding that little gem I
was unable to get VAAPI working at all. It worked, but there was some
problem, I no longer recall what it was though. Perhaps a lack of
deinterlacing?
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