[mythtv-users] Time to move to an HDMI stick for FEs?

[Kris Jensen]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 6:12 AM, Paul Kendall <pkendall64 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> ...
> > VAAPI works well.
>
> Since the MythTV FE does not (yet) support VAAPI
> VPP MCDI or MADI, that seems to imply that you do
> not have a lot of interlaced content (or your TV or
> A/V receiver performs the de-interlacing, or that you
> are one of the lucky ones that do not observe the artifacts).
> As with much else, details matter.
>
>

 I bought a Meego stick, it arrived a couple of weeks ago. Was able to
install Mythbuntu 12.04 then updated to 14.04. For some reason I was unable
to get 14.04 to do a fresh install, I did not spend much time figuring out
why. I also attached and set up a USB NIC and a USB to TOS-link sound
“card/dongle”. I have a Mythbackend that records from Verizon Fios with a
Ceton 6 tuner internal card. I do have a AV system in the frontend mix
(Yamaha RX-V473) but doubt it handles any de-interlacing.


 All that being said, Mythtv on the Meego stick works with some caveats, at
least in my setup. Picture quality is good enough no artifacts to speak of.
However I was getting a stutter/hitch/pause in the picture and sound.
Looking for clues in log files for the stutter/pauses reveled nothing. I
think the stutter/hitch/pause may be caused by thermal throttling of the
CPU, A wild guess. Still need more time testing.


 I think there's promise in the Intel/Meego stick as a frontend.
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