<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:12 AM, Paul Kendall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pkendall64@gmail.com" target="_blank">pkendall64@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Tom Harris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thom.j.harris@gmail.com" target="_blank">thom.j.harris@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Was there ever a verdict from the early adopters of these? Are they usable as MythTV frontends?<br></div><div><br></div><div>- Does audio work in Linux?</div><div>- Any video acceleration support with VAAPI?</div></div></div></div>
<br><br></blockquote></span><div>They work as frontends quite well. There are some problems with them be so new though.</div><div>Audio over HDMI does not work as yet. i.e. the device is not recognized at all.</div><div>The wireless works when you build a module from github.</div><div>The bluetooth is not recognized. It's part of the wireless networking chip.</div><div><br></div><div>VAAPI works well. I have an external USB soundcard plugged in and a USB ethernet and it's </div><div>a perfectly usable frontend. Pretty much all my content is h264 here in NZ.</div><div><br></div><div>I would however wait till audio is supported over HDMI before getting another one.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Paul</div></div></div></div><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hope I'm not comparing apples to oranges, but didn't the most recent Ubuntu update (or Linux kernel?) fix the audio issue with the ECS Liva, which has the same chipset? <br><br></div><div>As the starter of the thread, it's embarrassing to admit that I haven't even taken mine out of the box yet.<br></div></div></div></div>