<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 2:33 PM Jack McGee <<a href="mailto:jack@greendesk.net">jack@greendesk.net</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am not satisfied with stability of the Raspberry Pi hardware and there is no closed caption support. <br>
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I am willing to spend more. Do I need to look for anything in particular to make sure current Intel graphics hardware is acellerated in mythtv playback. Or can that all be done by CPU on say a NYC? ______________________________<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Personally, I splurged on a system which could take a nVidia video card. I was fortunate in that I had an old Core2 Duo ITX board sitting on the shelf, so I just had to add:</div><div><br></div><div>Silverstone ML08B-H<span id="inbox-inbox-productTitle" class="inbox-inbox-a-size-large">
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<span id="inbox-inbox-titleEDPPlaceHolder"></span></div><div> <a href="http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=607">http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=607</a></div><div><a href="http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=607"></a></div>GeForce GT 1030 AERO ITX 2G<div><a href="https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GT-1030-AERO-ITX-2G-OC.html">https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GT-1030-AERO-ITX-2G-OC.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>and I ended up with a system which could produce the best quality mythfrontend is capable of.</div><div><br></div><div>Note: That case does not come with a power supply, but will take a SFX-L style with 120mm fan if you want to keep it quiet. For the CPU cooler, this one works beautify in that system:</div><div><br></div><div>Noctua <span>NH-L9x65</span></div><div><a href="http://noctua.at/en/nh-l9x65">http://noctua.at/en/nh-l9x65</a></div><div><br></div><div>Definitely more expensive than a NUC if you have to buy all the components, but has the advantage that individual components can be upgraded if needed.<br></div><div><br></div><div>That old Core2 Duo paired with that video card has more than enough power to handle any task mythfrontend will throw at it.</div><div><br></div><div>John<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>