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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/12/2018 20:43, James Abernathy
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I’m trying to build a Raspberry PI 3 B+ dedicated to
Mythth-frontend. I’m close to where I need to be, but years of
working on selling CPUs into GFX and Video applications makes me
hyper sensitive to minor video issues. I think it’s a curse in
this case.
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<div class="">Giving 256MB of RAM to the GPU limits you some.
Things I noticed that surprised me a little.</div>
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<div class="">1. If I have Raspbian Lite, Xserver, XFCE, and
lightdm with Mythtv-frontend, Mybuntu 28.21 theme and an HDTV
recording playing I have 35 MB of memory free with no Swap used.
Here I launched mythfrontend after setting performance mode on
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<div class="">2. If I only install xserver, matchbox window
manager, lightdm with the Mythtv stuff as #1 I also have 35 MB
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<div class="">3. Using Openbox instead of Matchbox the same 35 MB
free.</div>
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<div class="">Both 2 and 3 autolaunch and autologin per the Mythtv
RPI wiki</div>
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<div class="">4. If I change the theme to the Default Mythtv 1.4/7
one, then I have 122 MB free.</div>
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<div class="">5. FE locked up if I tried to run the Xmas theme. I
imagine it has the largest memory load.</div>
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<div class="">In either case the video performance is the same.
Basically the video is great if the motion is not too fast.
quick panning is jumpy.</div>
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<div class="">I basically followed the tips from the Mythtv
Raspberry pi wiki.</div>
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<div class="">Anything else I can try?</div>
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<div class="">My goal is to use the RP3B+ as my frontend without
having to use Kodi 18. The video performance of Kodi 18 on RP3
is very good compared to Mythtv FE, but the Kodi interface is
not to my liking.</div>
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<div class="">I have a NUC Core i3 running Xubuntu with Mythtv FE
on it and it works perfectly, but I need the NUC else where.</div>
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<div class="">BTW, I tested the Kodi 18rc on the NUC and it’s
video is not as good as 17.6 and when it was installed it messed
up the Mythtv FE. I had to uninstall Kodi 18rc to get Mythtv FE
back to normal. The only way I could see the video issue was to
watch a news crawl across the bottom of the screen. </div>
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<p>I find the panning judder on the pi with myth 29 unacceptable at
1280i. Version 30 pre is an improvement with the new sync
mechanism and I find 720i acceptable on a 32ins TV. Kodi gives
perfect pictures at 1280 if you are ok with the interface. Using
Rasbian out of the box with 256m screen memory and Steppes theme
not suffering memory issues,<br>
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<p>The Firestick 4K is a game changer with picture quality as good
as Nvidia. It is not however currently reliable enough for
production use,<br>
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<p>The Firestick 4K is much bett<br>
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