[mythtv-users] Gigabyte Brix Celeron N2807

[Gerald Brandt]

On 2015-11-17 07:57 AM, Gerald Brandt wrote:
>
>
> On 2015-11-17 07:27 AM, Tom Bongiorno wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Gerald Brandt <gbr at majentis.com 
>> <mailto:gbr at majentis.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I just bought one of these units
>>     (http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5038#ov).
>>     The price was right, and I had the RAM and SSD already.
>>
>>     The first thing I did was install Lubuntu and a mythfrontend.  It
>>     works pretty well, but my regular frontend is a quad core AMD
>>     with an Nvidia GT 730. There are definitely quality differences
>>     in the video.
>>
>>     vainfo gives me this:
>>
>>     vainfo: VA-API version: 0.38 (libva 1.6.0)
>>     vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Bay Trail
>>     - 1.6.0
>>     vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
>>           VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
>>           VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointEncSlice
>>           VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
>>           VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointEncSlice
>>           VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
>>           VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
>>           VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
>>           VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
>>           VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
>>           VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
>>           VAProfileH264StereoHigh         : VAEntrypointVLD
>>           VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
>>           VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
>>           VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
>>           VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc
>>           VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
>>
>>     Is there anything I can do to tweak the video?  Kodi seems to
>>     give me better quality.
>>
>>     I'd probably be better off with the Brix i3 version and Intel HD
>>     5500 video, but it has a fan and I'm not sure how much noise it
>>     generates.
>>
>>     Gerald
>>
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>>
>> Questions like this come up over and over again. They should continue 
>> to be asked, even if only to serve as gauge of the interest in Intel 
>> Graphics support.
>>
>> Interlaced Video: You will surely see a difference in video quality. 
>> Mythfrontend does not utilize the latest deinterlacers provided by 
>> the Intel Graphics driver. Even if it did, I am not sure that they 
>> are as good as the Nvidia GPU deinterlacers. Kodi has a much larger 
>> developer group and most likely uses the latest features of the Intel 
>> Graphics driver.
>>
>> Progressive Video: I would think that they would be the same, but I 
>> admit that I know little about decoding video. Maybe someone else can 
>> give better info on this one.
>>
>> Buying the i3 version with Intel HD 5500 GPU will not improve your 
>> video quality at all.
>>
>> -Tom
>>
>>
>
> Interestingly, after I ran Kodi, the MythTV de-interlacing looked much 
> better.  I'll have to experiment a bit.
>
> Gerald
>

Hi,

Nah, I couldn't duplicate it.

The video is so bad under MythFrontend and the WAF is zero for Kodi, so 
I'll fix my Quad Core AMD/Nvidia GT 730 system and go back to that.  Too 
bad.

Gerald

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