<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; ">--</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; ">jhit</div><div>On 22 Oct 2014, at 8:56 pm, Robin Gilks <<a href="mailto:g8ecj@gilks.org">g8ecj@gilks.org</a>> wrote:</div></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Joseph Fry <<a href="mailto:joe@thefrys.com">joe@thefrys.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Wayne Roberts</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><<a href="mailto:wayne@therobertsfamily.eu">wayne@therobertsfamily.eu</a>></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi all,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Has anybody got an intel nuc (i5) working as a frontend?</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Not me personally, but there have been plenty of discussions on the</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>topic</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>and yes, people have got it working. Check Gossamer</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?list=mythtv&do=search_results&search_forum=forum_1&search_string=nuc&search_type=AND">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?list=mythtv&do=search_results&search_forum=forum_1&search_string=nuc&search_type=AND</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>There are very long threads on xbmc forums about NUCs. Even the 2820</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>model is a good performer for video, an i5 is gonna do all you want</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>and more.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Having said that there are differences of course between XBMC and</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Mythtv. Different playback engines of course, but importantly myth</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>users place more emphasis on deinterlacing - for which I don't think</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>you can beat nVidia.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>I followed Nicks advice on an x-26y and I'm really pleased with it.</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Cheapest-X-26Y-C1037U-2G-RAM-32G-SSD-mini-pc-tv-itx-case-game-pc-Support/1423478759.html">http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Cheapest-X-26Y-C1037U-2G-RAM-32G-SSD-mini-pc-tv-itx-case-game-pc-Support/1423478759.html</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>I'm running it with the opengl playback profile and greedy highmotion x2</span><br><span>deinterlacer and it runs at 25-30% CPU load. Fanless operation so really</span><br><span>quiet. The only fiddle I had with Mythbuntu-14 LTS was to build a version</span><br><span>of the mceusb kernel driver that would run correctly on a USB3 </span><br></div></blockquote><br><div>Robin, could you post some instructions for the mceusb kernel driver building, including download sources, on the wiki?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm sure we'd all appreciate it</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>John</div></body></html>