[mythtv-users] ECS LIVA Frontend

[Michael Wisniewski]

Thank you all for the responses.  I'm really between the ECS LIVA and an
Atom board with nvidia gpu.  Only thing is the Atom one costs a lot more
than the ECS Liva.  I do have concerns with the Liva, as Phil Wild pointed
out some of the issues.

All of my content is going to be from a HDHomeRun Prime tuner with the
video in mpeg2 format that's probably interlaced and sourced from Comcast.
I'd like to transcode things on the backend to h.264, but I'll figure that
out some other day.  I also have a HDHomeRun Plus for OTA.

I tested myth on an old ION2 Zotac box I had and I was pretty happy with
the performance of it.  The only thing is that the Zotac Atom boxes are
about the same price I spent on the one I bought a few years ago.  One
would think prices would come down....but no.  The one I was looking at was
almost 300 bucks for the box plus memory and a drive.  I was then thinking
about ditching the whole thing and getting an i3 nuc....but then I would
add more for memory.

Decisions, decisions.....  If only the Atom boxes were cheaper.



On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Phil Wild <phil at holobyte.com.au> wrote:

> On 28 February 2015 at 00:02, Dave MythTV <dave.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Ozzy Lash <ozzy.lash at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Michael Wisniewski
> >>>> <mikewiz38 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> If you search liva+mythtv on google you will find some results that
> >>>>>> should address at least some of your questions. This is the one I'm
> most
> >>>>>> interested in
> >>>>>>
> http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2015-January/375223.html,
> >>>>>> though that deals with a FE/BE running, amazingly, on that hardware.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I did see some of those threads, but I'm a little concerned about
> some
> >>>>> of the questions that I asked.  I bought a raspberry pi to use with
> >>>>> xbmc/kodi, and before buying it, people said it worked.
> Technically, yes,
> >>>>> it does work, but at a subpar experience.  Menus are slow,
> especially when
> >>>>> scrolling.  Decoding h.264 works, but try throwing something else at
> it
> >>>>> (like mpeg2 without the license), and it gets sluggish.
> >>>>> I also bought a firetv after the pi died for use with kodi.  Just
> like
> >>>>> the pi, it works, but there's some quirks with it.  For example, it
> doesn't
> >>>>> decode mpeg2 very well, the menus are quick, but my old lirc remote
> doesn't
> >>>>> work so I'm forced to use only a few buttons with the firetv remote.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm just trying to see what the consensus is on this box, now since a
> >>>>> month or two has passed.  It looks like it works, but there are some
> quirks
> >>>>> with it....which is kind of steering me away from it and finding
> something
> >>>>> cheap with vdpau support.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mike
>
> I would recommend looking at your budget before purchasing if you want
> a high quality output. I am in Australia and most of our free-to-air
> content is standard definition (unfortunately). The ECS Liva does not
> upscale this content very well (you get jaggies). I've also found that
> my audio drifted quite noticeably from the video signal when using
> audio over HDMI.
>
> If you, or your family watches LiveTV, there is a VAAPI bug that stops
> the output stream being de-interlaced at program transitions. I'm
> fairly certain I've seen this happen at ad transitions as well. You
> can fix by exiting and restarting the stream but it is annoying when
> it happens. Mine is on an outdoor TV that does not get used much and
> so I've not spent a lot of time trying to find a resolution to what
> I've experienced.
>
> If I were to purchase again, I'd look for a cheap integrated atom
> motherboard with a PCI-E slot and add a $50 nvidia card to it.
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