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now I'd say the answer is "no, it's not worth it",
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Newegg currently has the 32G/2G ECS Liva on sale for
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<div class="">Thanks for that hot tip. For $80 I
couldn't resist buying one to try out.</div>
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<div class="">After some fiddling, I got it to
PXE-boot Ubuntu 14.04 like the other ION-based
frontends. Strangely, it works for about 3-4
minutes after downloading the initrd.img file before
it gets into the actual boot process. But once it's
running mythfrontend, it's just as responsive as the
ION frontends.</div>
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<div class="">The frontend idles at 5 watts, and plays
HD-PVR h.264 recordings with deinterlacing at 9-10
watts. Compare to the ION which idles at 19 watts
and uses about 26 watts during similar playback.</div>
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<div class="">I am so tempted to buy several of these ECS Livas. I want
them to be the go to solution for a cheap frontend, but the
deinterlacer on the Intel graphics within MythTV is just not
up to par with VDPAU IMO. I found it to be a deal breaker.</div>
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<div class="">Is my understanding correct that the Intel graphics linux
drivers have VDPAU quality deinterlacer capability, but
integration needs to be added to MythTV? I may have this
wrong. I am no authority about what parts of the decoding
process are done by the graphics chip or the software.</div>
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I thought VDPAU is VDPAU and there is no quality differentiation
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