[mythtv-users] ECS LIVA Frontend

[Calvin Dodge]

I'm very happy with the ones I set up for front ends, and will probably buy
another when they're on sale again.

Calvin Dodge

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Ozzy Lash <ozzy.lash at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Michael Wisniewski <mikewiz38 at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
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>>>
>>> If you search liva+mythtv on google you will find some results that
>>>> should address at least some of your questions. This is the one I'm most
>>>> interested in http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2015-
>>>> January/375223.html, though that deals with a FE/BE running,
>>>> amazingly, on that hardware.
>>>
>>>
>>> I did see some of those threads, but I'm a little concerned about some
>>> of the questions that I asked.  I bought a raspberry pi to use with
>>> xbmc/kodi, and before buying it, people said it worked.  Technically, yes,
>>> it does work, but at a subpar experience.  Menus are slow, especially when
>>> scrolling.  Decoding h.264 works, but try throwing something else at it
>>> (like mpeg2 without the license), and it gets sluggish.
>>> I also bought a firetv after the pi died for use with kodi.  Just like
>>> the pi, it works, but there's some quirks with it.  For example, it doesn't
>>> decode mpeg2 very well, the menus are quick, but my old lirc remote doesn't
>>> work so I'm forced to use only a few buttons with the firetv remote.
>>>
>>> I'm just trying to see what the consensus is on this box, now since a
>>> month or two has passed.  It looks like it works, but there are some quirks
>>> with it....which is kind of steering me away from it and finding something
>>> cheap with vdpau support.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>> This does not have the same problems that the RPi or the old Atom boards
>> have with screen navigation, etc. On mine it's just as snappy as my primary
>> frontend/backend. MPEG-2 works fine, with VAAPI. I'm only using SD but
>> plenty of reports say that HD MPEG-2 is fine too. I have some DVD rips in
>> my video library which were encoded by Handbrake to h.264 which seem to
>> play okay over the network (GigE), but I haven't watched them extensively.
>> At the time, I said I think this is the cheap, featureful, powerful but
>> very low energy device we've all been waiting for as an ideal MythTV
>> frontend. If you have a requirement for top-shelf deinterlacing you'll
>> probably need to look to nVidia for VDPAU, which will be significantly
>> larger, more expensive and more power hungry.
>>
>> To answer one of your other questions, yes it's an x64 chip and boots via
>> 64 bit UEFI only, so your install media will need to support that (I had
>> trouble with the default Gentoo image).
>>
>> Karl
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> I'll agree with Karl.  I have one of these, and menu navigation is
> snappier than what it replaced (a first generation ion system).  It plays
> back broadcast  HD MPEG2 with no problems, and I've not noticed any
> problems with my ripped dvds.  I don't have any ripped bluerays, but I have
> heard reports that these are fine as well.
>
> When I first swapped between the two, I tried looking closely at the
> outputs of the 2 devices, and while it did seem a little different, I can't
> say that one was noticeably different than the other.  I don't watch a lot
> of recorded sports, though, so perhaps that would show up the deinterlacer
> differences.
>
> I have since bought a second, that I have up and running myth, but haven't
> really used yet.  I also bough a vga to svideo cable so that I may hook it
> up to an older tv in the office to have a frontend there.  Either that or
> keep it around as a standby when the old bedroom frontend finally goes out.
>
> Bill
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