<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 6 Aug 2021, at 6:38 am, James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com" class="">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 2:38 AM Stephen Worthington <<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" class="">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 21:01:57 -0400, you wrote:<br class=""><br class="">>I've been trying to get mythfrontend to work properly without a ton of<br class="">>video tearing and shearing on my new ASRock NUC 1165G7. It's an 11th Gen<br class="">>Core i7 mobile part,<br class="">><br class="">>I've tried Linux Mint 20.2, Ubuntu 21.04, PopOS and all have video problems<br class="">>and all use the Ubuntu kernel 5.11, and Xorg server.<br class="">><br class="">>I was having no luck getting help with this new hardware.<br class="">><br class="">>It turns out that Kodi has the same issue using the mythtv addon. I was<br class="">>thinking it had to be related to older kernels or mesa drivers. I'm out of<br class="">>my element here.<br class="">><br class="">>Today I installed Archlinux/XFCE4 with kernel 5.13.7 and mythfrontend<br class="">>v31.0-162 and everything is working fine as you'd expect for this much<br class="">>hardware performance. I'm using OpenGL High Quality with 4 CPUs in all<br class="">>this testing. Vaapi was a non-starter.<br class="">><br class="">>I don't know what made this work. Was it the newer kernel, newer Xserver,<br class="">>etc.<br class="">>Archlinux is a lot of work to install and keep working so I'd like to move<br class="">>back to *buntu based frontend, but not sure when this will work.<br class="">><br class="">>Any ideas?<br class="">><br class="">>JIm A<br class=""><br class="">Using OpenGL should work on any distro with a modern enough CPU.<br class="">Getting VAAPI working might require a late enough kernel to have the<br class="">latest Intel video drivers suitable for the NUC.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the last few days the kernels and mesa software has updated across Kubuntu, Mint, and PopOS. So now, all work with my ASRock 1165G7 NUC. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Jim please wax lyrical</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I 've got a gen-10 nuc but I've no idea on how to do VAAPI.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks</div><div>James</div><br class=""></body></html>