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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/25/18 9:41 PM, glen wrote:<br>
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<div>On Tue, 2018-12-25 at 18:45 -0500, James Abernathy wrote:</div>
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#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.
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<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
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<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>
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<div class="">What do others think??</div>
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<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>
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<p>The advances of small multi-core CPUs with built-in GPU has been
great since I retired from the industry. I know that a PC that you
spend $400 for will do the job. Also an old PC with a good Nvidia
graphics card with do the job. For me form factor is also a big
issue. That's why I spent a lot of time debugging performance on
the 3rd gen Core i3 NUC. But that performance is going down not
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<p>The RP3 B+ is quite good on Kodi but still lacking on
mythfrontend. Neither can do SlingTV, Prime Video etc.</p>
<p>So if the developers are spending their time on Nvidia Shield
then that may be the direction I should head. The hardware specs
on the Shield are impressive and the price is nice. I am sticking
with v29 on the backend because it's stable. I know the pre30
mythfrontend works on my Macbook with the v29 backend, but had
missing libraries on the RP3 with Raspbian. So I can't see if any
improvements have happened on the RP3. <br>
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<p>From monitoring the mailing list I see there are a number of
people with the Shield. My use case for the Shield would be
Mythfrontend displaying recorded MPG2 files from OTA tuners. I use
the HDHR Quatro and Connect devices. <br>
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<p>Jim A</p>
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