[mythtv-users] asus memo pad 7

[Eric Sharkey]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 15:55 +0000, Daniel Frey wrote:
>> I do feel this will prove to be a better ui experience for the users.
>
> If that includes no experience at all for users who don't have a big fat
> backend machine (because really, historically BE machines have never
> required big CPUs -- they were just pipes between hardware encoder cards
> or digital broadcasts and disk drives) that can transcode real-time then
> I guess that will be true.  I guess you won't have to field trouble
> reports from any of those users.

My BE has an 8-core AMD FX-8150 which runs at 3.6 GHz.  I consider
that near the big fat end of the backend CPU spectrum and I find HLS
to be almost unusable.  Sure, if you want to just sit down and watch
from the beginning and don't do any seeking, it can do an inferior
transcode at real-time speeds with no buffering, but the quality is
noticeably poorer than an offline two pass transcode and any sort of
seeking is pretty much out of the question.

Eric