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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-11-17 07:27 AM, Tom Bongiorno
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Gerald Brandt <span
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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
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5038#ov"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5038#ov">http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5038#ov</a></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>
<br>
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>
<br>
Gerald<br>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Buying the i3 version with Intel HD
5500 GPU will not improve your video quality at all.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">-Tom</div>
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Interestingly, after I ran Kodi, the MythTV de-interlacing looked
much better. I'll have to experiment a bit.<br>
<br>
Gerald<br>
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