<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 6:45 AM James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">On 12/26/18 7:30 AM, George Poulson
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<div>On Wed, 26 Dec 2018, at 03:18, James Abernathy wrote:<br>
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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 up.<br>
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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.<br>
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<div>I'm following this thread (and a related thread on
mythtv-dev) with interest.<br>
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<div>I have a 29.1-fixes combined backend and frontend running on
an ASUS Q87T mobo with Intel Core i5-4460S CPU and integrated
Intel graphics. This all works pretty well and mythfrontend's
playback of my UK DVB-S2 HD (AVC/H.264 1080) content using VAAPI
is perfectly watchable, although fast-panning scenes and
fast-moving credits show that it is only just able to cope. </div>
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Sounds like your visual evaluation is the same as mine. I use MPEG2
that HDHR receives OTA. If you could change Kodi's frontend to skip
like mythfrontend, I'd quit looking for improvements. <br>
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<div>As a number of other users have commented, mythfrontend's
skipping performance blows anything KODI-related out of the
water, yet KODI's visual appearance exceeds that of mythfrontend<br>
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<div>I'm looking for alternative frontends and so far I have
tested an RPi3 running Libreelec with KODI's mythtv-pvr plugin,
and while its visual appearance beats that of mythfrontend, the
skipping performance is a bit of a disaster.<br>
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<div>I've also installed Peter Bennett's Android frontend APK on a
Xiaomi Mi-box (<span style="font-size:14px" class="gmail-m_-9056363968136214419size">S905X Quad-Cortex-A53
@2.0GHz, Mali 450 @750MHz</span>, <span style="font-size:14px" class="gmail-m_-9056363968136214419size">2GB DDR3,<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>8GB
eMMC</span>, 5GHz WiFi) but surprisingly this won't play any
of my HD recordings without severe stuttering. Even my SD
recordings seem to struggle on this box, which surprises me
given the graphics hardware performance claims, which as I'm
typing this is making me wonder if I have a WiFi performance
problem.<br>
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<div>I'm considering trying a FireStick4k (I can't justify GBP150+
for a Shield) but am sceptical that this hardware will perform
any better than my MiBox. Can anyone verify decent quality
playback of HD UK DVB-S content on any Android hardware?<br>
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<p>I'll spring for a FireStick4k or a Shield, but not both. But I
want to be sure the Mythtv Frontend is as good on the Shield as on
a PC with an Nvidia GK208 [GeForce GT 710B]. I can't use PCs with
Nvidia PCIe GFX cards for all my Frontends because of the size and
heat, not to mention the cost.</p>
<p>Jim <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">A</span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">I have had Shields for quite some time and just yesterday loaded the mythfrontend on the new model (the new ones are about 1/3 the size of the originals and a bit snappier). Mythfrontend runs very well on them - as fast as any remote frontend I have ever used. The only thing I noticed (and it possibly happens on every remote frontend) is that when you are recording something and watching it and jump to the current recording position, about 50% of the time it stutters before it catches up properly for a couple seconds.</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">Also, if you have a Harmony remote and hub, the keys are much better (you get the a-z keyboard keys in the harmony app) if you set it up as a Windows PC rather than a nVidia Shield device. This of course will keep the power command from working, but you can set the shield to go to sleep after inactivity in it's settings to overcome that. The nVidia devices in Harmony will only allow you a few buttons to work on the remote - this way, they all do and you can assign them any way you like as usual.</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">I watched (with mythfrontend) all day yesterday and never had an issue and it was an excellent experience all around (except that there should be football on Christmas like Thanksgiving)!!!</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">I have not (and will not) buy another TV stick again. I had suck a bad experience with the Roku sticks being so slow, I still have a bad tatse in my mouth. The new Shields are small enough that I will travel with one instead of my Roku now.<br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">-Greg<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"></span>
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