<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 28, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Jim Stichnoth <<a href="mailto:stichnot@gmail.com" class="">stichnot@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Calvin Dodge <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:caldodge@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">caldodge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Right now I'd say the answer is "no, it's not worth it", given that<br class="">
Newegg currently has the 32G/2G ECS Liva on sale for $79.99.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><div class="">Thanks for that hot tip. For $80 I couldn't resist buying one to try out.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><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><div class=""><br class=""></div><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><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jim</div></div></div></div>
_______________________________________________<br class="">mythtv-users mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" class="">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br class="">http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br class="">http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette<br class="">MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><div>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><div><br class=""></div><div>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><div><br class=""></div><div>-Tom</div></div></body></html>