[mythtv-users] Cheap frontend for christmas

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Ozzy Lash <ozzy.lash at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Josu Lazkano <josu.lazkano at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Thanks Karl,
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>>> I am really interested in this device. I have some questions:
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>>> 1. Is it posible to power on the device from the USB? Didi you try to
>>> to power on from MCE remote? In the BIOS there will be something like
>>> USB wake up.
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>>> The BIOS does have a wake-on-USB option and I enabled it but I haven't
>> tested it yet (it's so low power I plan on just leaving it on all the time).
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>>> 2. Could you try to play some HD content? Here you have some examples:
>>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/nzone_hdcontent_home.html
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>>> I'll see if I can find some time to download some samples and try
>> playing them with mythavtest, although I'm using an HDMI to composite
>> converter and it runs at 1280x720, so I'm not sure if my results will be
>> all that useful. I could try hooking up a VGA monitor but I think it would
>> still be 1280x1024 or something. I'd have to bring it in to work to get a
>> full HD screen to test with. FYI, though, my initial test with the mythtv
>> sample was on a 1680x1050 screen and it was very smooth.
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>> Karl
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> I have one of these, and it plays back high def recordings fine using
> VAAPI. I had been using a first generation NVIDIA ION platform using VDPAU
> and at first I thought there might be a slight picture quality difference,
> I think those were either imagined, or were so slight that I quickly got
> used to it.  I have not tried blue ray rips or anything like that, but for
> OTA MPEG2 recordings from a HDHR Prime, it is working well.
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> Bill
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As I mention before, this has the same specs as the Celeron NUC and Zotac
ZBOX nano CI320 and they both play my unaltered blu-ray rips. My guess is
that this should also,.

-Tom
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