[mythtv-users] intel nuc's

John Haywood john at jhit.com.au
Wed Oct 22 11:48:06 UTC 2014



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jhit
On 22 Oct 2014, at 8:56 pm, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Wayne Roberts
>>> <wayne at therobertsfamily.eu>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Has anybody got an intel nuc (i5) working as a frontend?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Not me personally, but there have been plenty of discussions on the
>>> topic
>>> and yes, people have got it working.  Check Gossamer
>>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?list=mythtv&do=search_results&search_forum=forum_1&search_string=nuc&search_type=AND
>> 
>> 
>> There are very long threads on xbmc forums about NUCs. Even the 2820
>> model is a good performer for video, an i5 is gonna do all you want
>> and more.
>> 
>> Having said that there are differences of course between XBMC and
>> Mythtv. Different playback engines of course, but importantly myth
>> users place more emphasis on deinterlacing - for which I don't think
>> you can beat nVidia.
> 
> I followed Nicks advice on an x-26y and I'm really pleased with it.
> 
> http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Cheapest-X-26Y-C1037U-2G-RAM-32G-SSD-mini-pc-tv-itx-case-game-pc-Support/1423478759.html
> 
> I'm running it with the opengl playback profile and greedy highmotion x2
> deinterlacer and it runs at 25-30% CPU load. Fanless operation so really
> quiet. The only fiddle I had with Mythbuntu-14 LTS was to build a version
> of the mceusb kernel driver that would run correctly on a USB3 

Robin, could you post some instructions for the mceusb kernel driver building, including download sources, on the wiki?

I'm sure we'd all appreciate it

Cheers

John
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