<div dir="ltr">Scott,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the response. I tell ya, one minutes, I'm about to order the Liva, and the next, I'm having second thoughts. </div><div><br></div><div>I totally forgot about a lot of issues I had with my Onkyo receiver recognizing the audio and signal. I finally got things working right (through an edid.bin) with OpenElec, and your message just reminded me of all the headaches. </div><div><br></div><div>I honestly think that I might end up purchasing an Atom/ION2 box with an nvidia card in it. I really love the box I got and it works great with everything I throw at it. The only thing is that I paid about $250 for it new about five years ago and today, the new Atom/Ion2 boxes are still about $250 to $300. Usually computer prices go down over the years, but for some reason, it's not for these.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Scott Lipcon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slipcon@gmail.com" target="_blank">slipcon@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">Just to add my experience - I bought one of the new ECS Liva-X models to use as a second frontend. I got the higher end (4G/64G) model, but I think the 2G/32G one would work just as well. It works ok as a frontend, but not without some difficulties. I had to upgrade to Mythbuntu 14.10 (I would have preferred to use the 14.04 LTS releases) in order to get reliable HDMI audio. It wont boot at all if the TV isn't powered on at boot-up, which is annoying but not a dealbreaker. I spent the most time trying to get it to not lose its mind whenever the TV was off - I had to disable various screensaving/power saving options, DPMS, etc - either HDMI video wouldn't come back, or HDMI audio, or both - but eventually I got that set right, and it seems to be working well. <div><br></div><div>I also don't think I'm correctly using VAAPI - the software decode works well enough, with the CPU usage around 60-70% on top while playing back HDHR-CC content. I don't know if future kernel/driver updates will allow the VAAPI to work, or solve the 'reboot with TV off' problem - but its good enough as-is, and for $220, I'm happy. I also considered the older zotac boxes, but they seemed a bit less "turnkey" - having to add RAM and disk, or netboot, so it would be been a bit more expensive.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Scott</div><div><br></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Ozzy Lash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ozzy.lash@gmail.com" target="_blank">ozzy.lash@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Michael Wisniewski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikewiz38@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikewiz38@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"> I was then thinking about ditching the whole thing and getting an i3 nuc....but then I would add more for memory. <div><br></div><div>Decisions, decisions..... If only the Atom boxes were cheaper.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I think the NUCs all have intel graphics, so I think you would have similar issues with it as with the Liva in terms of video quality.<br><br></div><div>Bill <br></div></div></div></div>
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