[mythtv-users] "high end" frontend

[Tom Bishop]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 6:58 PM John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:

> Both my sister and mom have been using 2017 Shields for their
> mythfrontends. I use a "real" PC because I don't want to wait for
> mythfrontend to catch up to my remote keypresses. I also don't like for
> there to be any stuttering or tearing during playback.
>
> I just got back from my sister's house and was really dismayed at the poor
> performance on the Shield. Especially playing back HEVC source material. I
> discovered that it was not using Mediacodec to do the decoding and was
> instead using ffmpeg. I spent about half an hour trying to get it to use
> Mediacodec without success. That combined with how sluggish the whole thing
> was compared to my setup has me thinking about using "real" computers for
> my mom and sister.
>
> My current frontend has a 6th gen i5 paired with an old nVidia 950. It
> works perfectly. That is obviously a very old setup. Back then I tried just
> using the Intel graphics on the i5 but had terrible tearing issues. Do
> newer intel iGPUs do better?
>
> Is anyone using something like a Minisforum GD50 as a mythfrontend? That
> has Intel's new iGPU architecture in it and I would hope that it would
> decode and playback pretty much anything I threw at it. It is currently
> selling for ~$300 on Amazon which is much cheaper than I could build a
> machine for. It is also a lot more expensive than a Shield, let alone a
> Google TV Streamer, so I would hope that it performs far better as a
> mythfrontend box.
>
> TIA
>
> John
>
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I run an older shield and it works great but the difference is I run it via
a plugin on kodi. I have none of the issues that you referenced. I know
many do not like kodi but its worked for years and continues to work and
allows me to have access to all the other free streaming services on the
same unit.


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