[mythtv-users] Frontend hardware: VDPAU or VAAPI?

[Steve Greene]

It sounds like time is on our side with VAAPI. Has anyone used the NUC5CPYH
as a frontend? It will be replacing an ION that is now showing its age with
0.28, similar to Brian's experience.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 7:17 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2016-11-11 at 00:33 +0000, John P Poet wrote:
> >
> > There is currently a huge quality different in regards to the
> > deinterlacers.  While good deinterlacers have been added to VAPPI, no
> > one
> > has added support for them to mythfrontend.  mythfrontend does
> > support the
> > best VDPAU deinterlacer.
>
> I wonder what the state of Kodi is with regard to VAPPI and the better
> de-interlacers.  Might be worth looking into if you are one of those
> people that will notice the difference.
>
> FWIW, I switched to Kodi (with the Myth PVR addon) a few months ago
> when my upgrade to 0.28[1] started causing the MythFE to studder and
> stammer (badly) on the exact same hardware and content as 0.27 was
> working just fine.  I haven't looked back.  Albeit this is on ION
> hardware, not Intel Graphics.
>
> > The myth developers with knowledge of that part of the code are
> > currently
> > busy with work/life.
>
> Yes, this is one of the unfortunate downsides of FOSS, particularly
> with projects that have not taken on a $day_job paying sponsor because
> said project fits into their income producing scheme somehow.  And
> particularly with smaller, less popular projects.
>
> Cheers,
> b.
>
> [1] Which required an O/S upgrade since the O/S version I was on with
> 0.27 was not supported for 0.28, and I am sure an Nvidia driver upgrade
> also.  But ultimately, Kodi is playing all of the content, on the same
> hardware, using VDPAU that MythFE (0.28, but not 0.27) was studdering
> and stammering on, so the hardware and drivers are capable.  MythFE was
> just incapable for whatever reason.
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