[mythtv-users] Zotac Zbox Replacement

[Anthony Giggins]

On 13 August 2016 at 07:32, Matthew Gracie <matt at roadflares.org> wrote:

> I've been using an HP Pavilion mini that I got from woot for a couple
> hundred bucks; it came with Windows 8, but Linux support is solid. I'm
> using it strictly for OTA HD with an hdhomerun box.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 11, 2016, at 12:58 AM, Michael Papet <mpapet at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a Zotac Zbox of uncertain vintage running Debian testing that
> simply cannot seem to draw OTA HDTV when the frames get "busy" (think
> rendering live sports) in 2016.  I'm done fiddling with Nvidia's driver and
> tried playback using OpenGL and vdpau. It just doesn't seem to have enough
> throughput.  I'm ready to blame it on the hardware being unable to keep up.
>
> My front end prior to the Zotac was an old HP dual-core desktop that ran
> HDTV sports just fine.  I'm trying to find middle ground between the tiny
> Zotac that looks fine in the media cabinet and the "too big for 2016"
> desktop.
>
> I'm looking to step away from Atom architecture for something like a USFF
> box that isn't Atom and available as an off-lease/used on ebay, no OS. I've
> had fantastic luck buying this way, so far.  A fan is fine as most seem
> pretty quiet these days.  With that in mind, any recommendations would be
> great.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
some of the settings here https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU may help
someone else posted a similar question and they found "Disabled compositing
and added filter "vdpaubuffersize=32"" fixed their issues.

My zbox (atom nvidia ION) is working perfectly also, only issue I have is
it wont save the video res and keeps defaulting back to a lower res on
reboot which makes the aspect ratio look all wrong.

Cheers,

Anthony
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