<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Larry Kennedy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lunchtimelarry@gmail.com" target="_blank">lunchtimelarry@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><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"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Larry Kennedy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lunchtimelarry@gmail.com" target="_blank">lunchtimelarry@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Phil Wild <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phil@holobyte.com.au" target="_blank">phil@holobyte.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">What do peeps think of the picture quality?<br>
I'm a bit disappointed. My other frontend is an old V1 nvidia ION.<br>
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The LIVA with VAAPI does not seem to interlace well. From memory, it<br>
was set to Bob 2x.<br>
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Suggestions on a fix?<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Have you tried OpenGL Slim? When compared with VAAPI, it's hard to tell which is better, but neither looks quite as good as my GT210 front ends. I seem to notice more pixelation on this Liva. </div><span><div><br></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote></span><div><br>Speaking of VAAPI, on my Mythbuntu 12 Liva front-end, I just realized that I don't have the vainfo package as described on the <a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VAAPI" target="_blank">wiki</a>. It looks like I have the other packages/libraries, though. If I instruct Myth to use the VAAPI decoder, I suppose I'll see some error messages in the frontend log if the libraries are not set up properly? Would the front-end even be able to play back the recording if I choose VAAPI and it isn't set up? Does anyone know if Mythbuntu 12 is known to have these libraries set up properly by default?<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've confirmed that if I select VAAPI in the frontend setup, the frontend log shows that the VAAPI driver failed when I play a recording, and it looks as though myth reverts to OpenGL since the video played properly anyway (this confirms why I saw no real difference between OpenGL and VAAPI earlier in this thread; they were apparently one in the same). </div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, I found this <a href="http://samiux.blogspot.com/2014/07/howto-ecs-liva-mini-pc-kit-on-ubuntu.html">blog </a> that discusses the installation of additional 3rd-party drivers to enable VAAPI on the Liva. Below is an excerpt:</div><div><br></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Courier New',Courier,FreeMono,monospace;font-size:14px;line-height:19.6000003814697px;background-color:rgb(254,253,250)">For the video playback, you are required to install the following packages:</span></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><code style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;line-height:19.6000003814697px;background-color:rgb(254,253,250)">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sander-vangrieken/vaapi</code></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><code style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;line-height:19.6000003814697px;background-color:rgb(254,253,250)">sudo apt-get update</code></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><code style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;line-height:19.6000003814697px;background-color:rgb(254,253,250)">sudo apt-get install mplayer-vaapi gstreamer1.0-vaapi gstreamer1.0-libav libva-intel-vaapi-driver vainfo mencoder-vaapi</code></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><code style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;line-height:19.6000003814697px;background-color:rgb(254,253,250)"><br></code></div><div><code style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;line-height:19.6000003814697px;background-color:rgb(254,253,250)">Did anyone else here find this necessary I don't recall seeing anyone mention this as a requirement? </code></div><div><code style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;line-height:19.6000003814697px;background-color:rgb(254,253,250)"><br></code></div><div><code style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;line-height:19.6000003814697px;background-color:rgb(254,253,250)"><br></code></div><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"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><div></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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