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

[Steve Greene]

The NUC5CPYH is $126.26 brand new on Amazon today. I bough the NUC5PPYH
(the 4-core Pentium version) for a little over $160. Used ION's now call
for a "legacy" driver, which is a little too dicey for my taste. Ubuntu
Drive Manager was offering later drivers that didn't support the device, in
addition to the one "legacy" version. A driver update to the legacy edition
from a couple of weeks ago killed my frontend until I rolled back to the
previous version.

The one thing I'm not loving about the Intel chipsets is that the video
seems a little lessy contrasty and a little softer, as well as possibly a
little warmer than the same video from the ION. Not sure what is going on
there, I'll be doing a little research over the weekend.

Steve

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:13 AM, rob e <redgerhoo at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>
>
> On 18/11/16 11:01, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 10:05:47 -0500
>> From: "Brian J. Murrell"<brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
>> To:mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend hardware: VDPAU or VAAPI?
>> Message-ID:<1479395147.28106.3.camel at interlinx.bc.ca>
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>> On Thu, 2016-11-17 at 16:24 +1100, rob e wrote:
>>
>>> >I've also use the NUC5CPYH, in addition to Pi 2, pi 3, Asus
>>> >Chromebox?
>>> >2955U.
>>>
>> That's the Celeron option, yes? ?A bit pricey compared to the ION
>> machines I bought at about C$100. ?Those were with 2G of RAM also but
>> no local storage (HDD, SSD, etc.) though, so maybe comparable. ?Except
>> that I can't scale a Chromebox back (i.e. buy without an SSDa) to those
>> cheaper IONs to make them cheaper. ?MythFEs really don't need any local
>> storage (if you netboot them, which I do) never mind SSD.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> b.
>>
> yes and yes :) I bought the Nuc second hand at a reasonable price. The
> Chromebox is a much better deal, you may be able to buy one for about
> US$120 on Black Friday (or similar) special as I did
>
> Alternately go for an AMLogic S905 or S905x box eg. Odroid C2 etc and use
> Kodi as a front end. I intend to experiment with that approach (machine on
> order). More capable graphics, lower power and much cheaper than any Intel
> options.
> R
>
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