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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/12/2015 9:44 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:<br>
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On 8/11/2015 9:55 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:<br>
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> I've gotten much farther with my ECS Liva. It's still only attached
> to a computer LCD at 1680x1050 but the VAAPI video seems to be
> working well. I've played lots of recordings and they look good with
> no artifacts. I did have to be told to set the painter to OpenGL to
> get VAAPI enabled.
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Got my ECS Liva hooked up to a full 1920x1080 50" TV. Recordings
playback looks great. HDMI audio out works great. Not connected to
an amplifier so haven't tried surround sound. Just stereo on the
TV. <br>
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Some complained about Live TV in another thread and it does seem
to be a bit less than regular recordings. But acceptable to me.
Hard to say without more viewing. Might have been the stream
quality for that channel at that time.<br>
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I think maxing out the video memory helps. Still leaves 1.5G of
RAM for mythfrontend which is plenty.<br>
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As I just found out, no MPEG-1 under VAAPI.<br>
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Alas, NewEgg dropped their $99 promotion for the ECS Liva. it's
now $129. I was going to buy a second unit. But now I'll wait.<br>
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However, they have a newer (??) ECS Liva X for $120. It has dual
video out and a big old heat sink for the motherboard that the
Liva lacks. Anyone familiar with the Liva X?<br>
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I spoke too quickly. Playback at 1920x1080 has some ticks and
hesitations that will drive me insane. I thought output looked okay
at 1680x whatever on my PC display so I tried lowering resolution to
the 1600x900 resolution supported by the TV:<br>
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# xrandr -q -d :0<br>
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1600 x 900, maximum 32767 x 32767<br>
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)<br>
HDMI1 connected 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
axis) 1209mm x 680mm<br>
1600x900 59.98*+<br>
1920x1080 60.00 + 50.00 59.94 30.00 25.00
24.00 29.97 23.98<br>
1920x1080i 60.00 50.00 59.94<br>
1680x1050 59.88<br>
1280x1024 75.02 60.02<br>
1440x900 59.90<br>
1366x768 59.79<br>
...<br>
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But no, there are still annoying delays and hesitations especially
visible in on-screen crawls and rolls. I also tried the 1920x1080i
mode but that didn't help. I'd like to try the 50 hertz refresh rate
and to if that would help. Gotta figure out how to set that in
xorg.conf.<br>
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