[mythtv-users] Low end NUC as backend/frontend?

[jedi]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 01:44:11PM -0500, Greg Thompson wrote:
> Tom,
> 
> Thats exactly my setup except I only have 3 TV's...

    Anything short of a Tornado warning doesn't really have to be "live"
though. Even with "event television" like the Superbowl, I would want to
wait long enough to cover the commercials in the broadcast so that I am
never going to "catch up" with them.

> 
> If anyone finds a distro that works well with the NUC's let me know.. For
> now I guess I will look for a different solution that involves VDPAU
> hardware. Seems that the OpenGL performance of the integrated Intel HDXXXX
> graphics is just not up to the task of Live TV.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Tom Bongiorno <tbjr at bongohut.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:42 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 08:57:25AM -0500, Greg Thompson wrote:
> >> > Hi David,
> >> >
> >> > Those settings work well when just watching videos... the issue I have
> >> is
> >> > when I hit 'S' to bring up the guide and move around the live TV picture
> >> > pauses frequently. Also when I arrow up or down to bring up the On
> >> Screen
> >> > display the picture becomes jumpy.
> >> >
> >> > I know a lot of people on this list will say 'Your Doing it wrong, Myth
> >> is
> >> > most useful at recording blah blah' but for ultimate WAF I have to have
> >> > live TV viewing working well... She watches a lot of Channels that are
> >> no
> >> > good being recorded... (QVC, HSN etc)
> >>
> >>     Why bother feeding video through the PVR if you're just going to watch
> >> something like QVC? Just have a separate cable box on a different TV
> >> input.
> >> Anything else and you are squandering a tuner that could be hard at work
> >> recording stuff for you.
> >>
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> > I, for one, rent no cable boxes.  All seven TVs go through one Ceton tuner
> > card.  Live TV is every bit as important as the PVR function.  The idea of
> > a tuner only being for time shifting a recording is just short sighted.
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