<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;" bgcolor="#f7f7f7" text="#818181" link="#3399ff" vlink="#2c2c2c"><div>On Tue, 2018-07-31 at 21:37 -0700, Tom Harris wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 6:47 PM, David Engel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@istwok.net" target="_blank">david@istwok.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 05:34:14PM -0500, Ashu Desai wrote:<br>
> ><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>
<br>
</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>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
David<br>
</font></span><span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
> 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></span><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><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><div> </div></div></div></div>
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