[mythtv-users] Cheap frontend for HD

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 30/06/15 00:53, Mark Perkins wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 30 Jun 2015, at 2:43 am, "Stuart Auchterlonie" <stuarta at squashedfrog.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 29/06/15 16:54, Tom Bongiorno Jr. wrote:
>>>
>>> I am so tempted to buy several of these ECS Livas. I want them to be the
>>> go to solution for a cheap frontend, but the deinterlacer on the Intel
>>> graphics within MythTV is just not up to par with VDPAU IMO. I found it
>>> to be a deal breaker.
>>>
>>> Is my understanding correct that the Intel graphics linux drivers have
>>> VDPAU quality deinterlacer capability, but integration needs to be added
>>> to MythTV? I may have this wrong. I am no authority about what parts of
>>> the decoding process are done by the graphics chip or the software.
>>
>> There is an API within VAAPI which supports de-interlacing in the Intel
>> hardware.
>>
>> Sadly nobody has yet written any code to use this in MythTV :(
>> so you are left utilizing software de-interlacing.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Stuart Auchterlonie
>> _______________________________________________
> 
> If I recall correctly Jean-Yves was the goto person for coding anything video decoding related, any chance we can convince him to pick this up? Although I am assuming that Jean-Yves simply doesn't have the time and / or capacity at the moment.
> 

He falls into the category of "Devs with a very demanding day job,
which leaves little time for MythTV" :(

> I periodically check on this ticket - https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12319 - and assume it falls into the same resource constrained category.

Resource constrained is a good way of putting it....

Regards
Stuart

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