<html dir="ltr"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body class="" style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;" bgcolor="#f7f7f7" text="#818181" link="#3399ff" vlink="#2c2c2c"><div>On Tue, 2018-12-25 at 18:45 -0500, James Abernathy wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">While sitting around during the holidays watching TV, I started thinking about how to improve my home media center. My backend is a powerful server with RAID so I’m covered there. My Frontends need some work though. It maybe my brain going crazy, but I no longer think my Ivy Bridge i3 NUC is not up to the task. Too much tearing at the bottom of the screen no matter what settings I use. This started as the kernels got updated on Ubuntu 16.04 in prep for moving to 18.04. My guess is improving the drivers for the new Intel chips they messed up the old 3rd Core generation drivers.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Even my RP3 B+ has better video performance. Since I use FireTV in addition to Mythtv, I’m thinking of something like the Nvidia Shield. It can run all the apps that the FireTV does and it plays games and runs mythtv frontend.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At $150, I can’t buy a more powerful PC than what I have. So I’m thinking the Shield is right solution moving forward without breaking the bank.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What do others think??</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jim A</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div>
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<br class=""></div><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>mythtv-users mailing list</pre><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org"><pre>mythtv-users@mythtv.org</pre></a><pre><br></pre><a href="http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users"><pre>http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</pre></a><pre><br></pre><a href="http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette"><pre>http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette</pre></a><pre><br></pre><pre>MythTV Forums: </pre><a href="https://forum.mythtv.org"><pre>https://forum.mythtv.org</pre></a></blockquote><pre><br></pre><pre>i have 2 shields i got for very low price. i agree to be able to have netflix, amazon, hbogo etc plus mythfrontend</pre><pre>is a big advantage. mythfrontend runs pretty well. i have a little trouble with h264 using mediacodec so i use ffmpeg</pre><pre>codec for everything. also for me only ffmpeg codec allows subtitles. playback is acceptable. not as good as on my backend, </pre><pre>a ryzen 7 with nvidia 750 ti. you could also try to build from master and check out the vaapi 2 and see if that improves </pre><pre>the nuc's before you take the plunge. overall i'm quite happy with the shield on a 4k tv and thanks to the great </pre><pre>work by peter bennet now having mythfrontend makes a really versatile solution for me.</pre><pre><br></pre></body></html>