<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 8, 2018, at 11:03 AM, George Poulson <<a href="mailto:george.poulson@gmail.com" class="">george.poulson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Jerry <<a href="mailto:mythtv@hambone.e4ward.com" target="_blank" class="">mythtv@hambone.e4ward.com</a>> wrote:</span></div><div class=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">I have not tried it as a mythtv frontend as that's not why I purchased the machine. I can tell you that the performance I've seen is very satisfactory. I'm not sure about video performance as I've only run a terminal on my monitor at this point. If there is any interest, I could try loading version 30 on it and trying it on my monitor. That's not a big deal. I'm not as picky as a lot of you videophiles so I may miss minor distortions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I'm following this with interest. I've experimented with a few SoC boards and am still looking for something to do a good job of rendering HD playback while keeping the familiar UI of Mythfrontend as well as keeping the cost down.<br class=""></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I've been away from this list for a while so if I've missed anything interesting on this subject I'd really appreciate a catch-up :-)</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I purchased one of these </div><h1 id="title" class="a-spacing-none a-size-large"><span id="productTitle" class="a-size-large">Fanless
Mini PC, 2GB/32GB Intel Atom x5-Z8350(2M Cache, up to 1.92 GHz),HD
Graphics 400,4K/1000M LAN/2.4G+5.8G WIFI/BT4.0, Support Windows 10
</span></h1><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071HSSX3N/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1" class="">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071HSSX3N/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>When I bought it, it was $70 as a lightning deal, but is now $109. Looks like it goes lightning deal every month or so.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>It is an intel cherry trail processor, and needs 2 things done once linux(ubuntu 18.10 in my case) is installed to get full benefit from it.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>As a frontend running latest master to take advantage of the VAAPI 2 changes, it works fine, and currently master frontend is able to talk with v29 backend.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Jrh</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>