[mythtv-users] Another ECS Liva Review

[Kirk Bocek]

On 7/29/2015 9:13 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
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> On 7/29/2015 8:59 AM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
>> ....
>>> My solution ....
>> Another possibility is to use the netinstall image (pointing to
>> your local repo copy if your bandwidth is small, or metered,
>> and you are regularly reinstalling).
>>
>> I tend to only download/use the netinstall images these days.
>> 1680x1050
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> I think I misunderstood what the netinstall image was for. To me, that 
> meant install from my local network repository. Obviously, it means 
> install from the internet. My bad.
>

I've gotten much farther with my ECS Liva. It's still only attached to a 
computer LCD at 1680x1050 but the VAAPI video seems to be working well. 
I've played lots of recordings and they look good with no artifacts. I 
did have to be told to set the painter to OpenGL to get VAAPI enabled.

However going through my collection of videos, I found one that won't 
play. On my Nvidia frontends it plays fine. Through VAAPI I get an 
"Unknown Error" when I try to play it through the built-in player. On 
the Nvidia frontends, one is using mplayer, the other is built-in. But 
both play it fine.

FFMpeg -i displays the file's information as:

Duration: 00:03:27.88, start: 0.264578, bitrate: 1848 kb/s
     Stream #0:0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg1video, yuv420p(tv), 352x240 [SAR 
200:219 DAR 880:657], 1600 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 29.97 tbc
     Stream #0:1[0x1c0]: Audio: mp2, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16p, 224 kb/s

I am guessing this is a VAAPI limitation.