[mythtv-users] ECS LIVA Frontend

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Michael Wisniewski <
> <mikewiz38 at gmail.com>mikewiz38 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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> Post if you find something with *full* VDPAU support. I can select VDPAU
> in Myth on my ECS Liva with Intel video but it's pretty miserable. Everyone
> seems to say that the old licensing agreement that allowed Atom boards with
> integrated Nvidia graphics expired and is unlikely to be renewed.
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> Is there any micro format (that is a form factor similar to the ECS
> Liva/Raspberry Pi 2) that has the beautiful Nvidia graphics fully supported
> by Myth?
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It is highly unlikely that we will see any Nvidia based micro frontends for
reasons you stated. What is more likely to happen is that a dev has an itch
to add support for Intel's better deinterlacers or the content providers
stop supplying interlaced video.
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