<div dir="ltr"><div>The NUC5CPYH is $126.26 brand new on Amazon today. I bough the NUC5PPYH (the 4-core Pentium version) for a little over $160. Used ION's now call for a "legacy" driver, which is a little too dicey for my taste. Ubuntu Drive Manager was offering later drivers that didn't support the device, in addition to the one "legacy" version. A driver update to the legacy edition from a couple of weeks ago killed my frontend until I rolled back to the previous version.<br><br></div><div>The one thing I'm not loving about the Intel chipsets is that the video seems a little lessy contrasty and a little softer, as well as possibly a little warmer than the same video from the ION. Not sure what is going on there, I'll be doing a little research over the weekend.<br></div><div><br></div>Steve<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:13 AM, rob e <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:redgerhoo@yahoo.com.au" target="_blank">redgerhoo@yahoo.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On 18/11/16 11:01, <a href="mailto:mythtv-users-request@mythtv.org" target="_blank">mythtv-users-request@mythtv.or<wbr>g</a> wrote:<br>
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 10:05:47 -0500<br>
From: "Brian J. Murrell"<<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca" target="_blank">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a><wbr>><span class=""><br>
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend hardware: VDPAU or VAAPI?<br></span>
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On Thu, 2016-11-17 at 16:24 +1100, rob e wrote:<br>
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>I've also use the NUC5CPYH, in addition to Pi 2, pi 3, Asus<br></span>
>Chromebox?<br>
>2955U.<br>
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That's the Celeron option, yes? ?A bit pricey compared to the ION<br>
machines I bought at about C$100. ?Those were with 2G of RAM also but<br>
no local storage (HDD, SSD, etc.) though, so maybe comparable. ?Except<span class=""><br>
that I can't scale a Chromebox back (i.e. buy without an SSDa) to those<br></span>
cheaper IONs to make them cheaper. ?MythFEs really don't need any local<span class=""><br>
storage (if you netboot them, which I do) never mind SSD.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
b.<br>
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yes and yes :) I bought the Nuc second hand at a reasonable price. The Chromebox is a much better deal, you may be able to buy one for about US$120 on Black Friday (or similar) special as I did<br>
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Alternately go for an AMLogic S905 or S905x box eg. Odroid C2 etc and use Kodi as a front end. I intend to experiment with that approach (machine on order). More capable graphics, lower power and much cheaper than any Intel options.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
R</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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