[mythtv-users] Recommendations needed for new FE box

[David Engel]

Well, so much for the private reply. :( Sorry for putting your name
out there Peter.

David

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 09:03:37PM -0500, David Engel wrote:
> Please note and respect that this reply is private.
> 
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 07:29:19PM -0400, Steve Greene wrote:
> > David,
> > Myself, I watch a lot of live TV, including 1080i content from CNN ("the
> > crawl") and baseball (fast moving action). I have a NUC, and so far have
> > been able to live with some tearing, but I recognize that software exists
> > to leverage the built in advantages offered by VAAPI, but Myth is so far
> > not designed to leverage that existing work, which is frustrating.
> > 
> > My NUC is a few generations old, but supports 4K, so I ought to be somewhat
> > future proofed!
> > 
> > BTW, I'm serious about that bounty. I imagine quite a few fellow users
> > might want to contribute to it as well.
> 
> I won't publicly volunteer Peter Bennett.  He's already gone above and
> beyond recently on several other things.  However, he's your best bet.
> As I already noted, the work he's done on MediaCodec support *should*
> make replacing our VAAPI support a much easier task than it would
> otherwise be.  He's also the only current, active developer with
> experience in that area of the code.
> 
> FWIW, I also want to see the VAAPI support updated.  I'm about to
> reclaim an old, Asus ChromBox from my mom after I configure the other
> Nvidia Shield I bought for her.  I want to use the ChromeBox as a
> spare/testing frontend.
> 
> David
> 
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 6:34 PM, Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >> > >
> > >> > Thank you!
> > >> >
> > >> > My problem is I don't know the difference say between Raspberry Pi 3 B+
> > >> > video output vs say NUC with Pentium J5005 - i see multiple NUC on
> > >> amazon
> > >> > with under $200
> > >> >
> > >> > So just trying to see which way to go.
> > >>
> > >> For what do you want to use it?  MythTV, timestretch, YouTube, Prime
> > >> Video, Playstation Vue, other streaming service, other HTPC function?
> > >> Some boxes can do some of these, but no single box can really do them
> > >> all well.  In other words, it all depends on what *you* want it to do.
> > >>
> > >> David
> > >>
> > >>
> > > My needs are extremely simple - I use Myth for music, videos (not TV
> > > recordings - my own movie/homevideos collection), family photo.
> > >
> > > So basically my need is for a FE that will allow HD videos with HD
> > > (generally speaking - HD-DTS, TrueHD, etc etc) passthrough, I also have
> > > "some" H.265 movies that are currently unplayable owing to the ZOTAC ION
> > > processor that can't handle it.
> > >
> > > I wanted to dab into the airplay but i only get the sound out - no video.
> > > However, that is for another email chain since I don't want to hijack this
> > > one by digressing.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> David Engel
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> 

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