[mythtv-users] v30 can anyone tell me is it worth upgrading?

[Tom Bishop]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 10:12 AM Mike Carron <jmcarron at gmx.com wrote:

>
> On 2/14/19 7:52 AM, Peter Bennett wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2/13/19 10:19 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> >> On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:43:43 +1000, you wrote:
> >>
> >>> v30 can anyone tell me is it worth upgrading?
> >>>
> >>> I've looked through the release notes and cannot see anything that is
> >>> compelling to upgrade.
> >>>
> >>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Release_Notes_-_30
> >>>
> >>> and this actually looks like a negative (although I tend to steer
> >>> away from
> >>> H.265 content)
> >>> *Hardware accelerated H.265/HEVC decoding with VDPAU is not
> >>> available any
> >>> more for Nvidia users.
> >>>
> >>> Happy to have my view persuaded
> >>>
> >>> Currently running v29 on ubuntu 16.04
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>> Anthony
> >> What is your Nvidia card?  You are only going to lose H.265 decoding
> >> on it if it is a more recent one that actually does H.265 hardware
> >> decoding.  In my case, I have an Nvidia GT220, so it does not do H.265
> >> anyway.  But my CPU (AMD FX-4100 3.6 GHz quad core) is more than
> >> capable enough, so H.265 is fine.
> >>
> > FYI - H265/HEVC decoding with VDPAU is working again on master but you
> > need NVIDIA driver at least version 410.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> Personally I'm still using 0.27 on Ubuntu 14.04 for those systems
> dedicated to TV watching only. I haven't encountered anything that would
> make me want to upgrade. If it ain't broke...
>
> mike
>
>
> +1 HA, and I thought I was the only one doing that.... :)
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