<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Gerald Brandt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gbr@majentis.com" target="_blank">gbr@majentis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><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">Hi,<br>
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I just bought one of these units (<a href="http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5038#ov" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5038#ov</a>). The price was right, and I had the RAM and SSD already.<br>
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The first thing I did was install Lubuntu and a mythfrontend. It works pretty well, but my regular frontend is a quad core AMD with an Nvidia GT 730. There are definitely quality differences in the video.<br>
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vainfo gives me this:<br>
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vainfo: VA-API version: 0.38 (libva 1.6.0)<br>
vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Bay Trail - 1.6.0<br>
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints<br>
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD<br>
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice<br>
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD<br>
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice<br>
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD<br>
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice<br>
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD<br>
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice<br>
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD<br>
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice<br>
VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointVLD<br>
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD<br>
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD<br>
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD<br>
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc<br>
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD<br>
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Is there anything I can do to tweak the video? Kodi seems to give me better quality.<br>
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I'd probably be better off with the Brix i3 version and Intel HD 5500 video, but it has a fan and I'm not sure how much noise it generates.<br>
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Gerald<br>
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</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Questions like this come up over and over again. They should continue to be asked, even if only to serve as gauge of the interest in Intel Graphics support.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Interlaced Video: You will surely see a difference in video quality. Mythfrontend does not utilize the latest deinterlacers provided by the Intel Graphics driver. Even if it did, I am not sure that they are as good as the Nvidia GPU deinterlacers. Kodi has a much larger developer group and most likely uses the latest features of the Intel Graphics driver.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Progressive Video: I would think that they would be the same, but I admit that I know little about decoding video. Maybe someone else can give better info on this one.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Buying the i3 version with Intel HD 5500 GPU will not improve your video quality at all.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-Tom</div></div>