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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/08/18 15:42, Phil Bridges wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 12:39 AM Tom Harris <<a
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 6:47
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Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 05:34:14PM -0500, Ashu Desai
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> ><br>
> > > ><br>
> > > Thank you!<br>
> > ><br>
> > > My problem is I don't know the
difference say between Raspberry Pi 3 B+<br>
> > > video output vs say NUC with
Pentium J5005 - i see multiple NUC on amazon<br>
> > > with under $200<br>
> > ><br>
> > > So just trying to see which way to
go.<br>
> ><br>
> > For what do you want to use it? MythTV,
timestretch, YouTube, Prime<br>
> > Video, Playstation Vue, other streaming
service, other HTPC function?<br>
> > Some boxes can do some of these, but no
single box can really do them<br>
> > all well. In other words, it all
depends on what *you* want it to do.<br>
> ><br>
> > David<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> My needs are extremely simple - I use Myth
for music, videos (not TV<br>
> recordings - my own movie/homevideos
collection), family photo.<br>
> <br>
> So basically my need is for a FE that will
allow HD videos with HD<br>
> (generally speaking - HD-DTS, TrueHD, etc
etc) passthrough, I also have<br>
> "some" H.265 movies that are currently
unplayable owing to the ZOTAC ION<br>
> processor that can't handle it.<br>
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</span>For those needs, just about anything that
runs mythfrontend should<br>
suffice. For even lower end, you could even get by
with Kodi. Just<br>
make sure whatever hardware supports those audio
formats. As has been<br>
mentioned, some newer, lower-end NUCs can't do do
audio pass through.<br>
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David<br>
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> I wanted to dab into the airplay but i only
get the sound out - no video.<br>
> However, that is for another email chain
since I don't want to hijack this<br>
> one by digressing.<br>
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<div>One note on the Kodi option: In general I find
it works very well on my cheap little Pi3 box.
Playback of completed recordings is very good.</div>
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<div>But, one area that it does quite poorly at is
’time shifting’ — starting playback on a video that
is currently recording. I do this a lot with
ballgames. I start watching an hour after the game
begins and skip commercials and dead time until I
reach current time. MythFrontEnd is great for
this. Kodi is very bad. It messes up the
(changing) end time, and skip ahead/back doesn’t
skip the correct amount of time.</div>
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<div>What's the downside of using the regular Mythfrontend on
a Pi 3? </div>
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<p>In version 29, HD playback using mythfrontend can be a bit
juddery during panning.</p>
<p>Kodi playback is fine but the interface is nothing like as good.</p>
<p>This may get fixed by the work being put in by Peter Bennett on
version 30, I certainly hope so.<br>
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