[mythtv-users] Recommendations needed for new FE box

[Ashu Desai]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 2:04 PM Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 5:48 PM Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I thought VDPAU was the "better" one here,
>
> For those of discerning tastes (i.e. the quality addicts),
> in the de-interlacing world, what you want is MCDI(*)
> (motion compensated de-interlacing).  MADI (motion
> adaptive de-interlacing) is a lower complexity
> implementation which some find adequate.  With
> the exception of extremely powerful systems, those
> require hardware assistance(**).  There are also various
> software de-interlacers, at varying levels of quality
> (and software demands).
>
> While today all the major vendors have hardware
> support of MCDI, that was not always true.  Nvidia
> was, for years, considered the gold standard in the
> HTPC world for video quality.  MythTV's implementation
> of VDPAU included the MCDI support.
>
> Early gen Intel VPUs did not support advanced hardware
> de-interlacing, and the original VAAPI also did not.  Later
> Intel hardware added (first) MADI, and eventually MCDI.
> A later version of VAAPI now supports those, but it uses
> a different architectural approach that MythTV was never
> updated to use (a couple of people have reportedly
> looked at it, but it was determined to require enough
> work (i.e. time) that it was simply not done).
>
> Over the years FFMpeg has add support for advanced
> hardware accelerated decode and de-interlacing,
> including for Intel based MCDI (they also have a lot more
> devs dedicated to the video pipelines they support).
> However, as David Engel points out, MythTV did not
> utilize FFMpeg in ways that took advantage of some
> of those new/improved capabilities, and that the work
> by Peter Bennett may(***) be able to be leveraged to
> support in the future.
>
>
>
>
>
> (*) There are subtle differences between hardware
> implementations of MCDI, but while it is possible to
> observe differences in synthetics, it is the rare
> individual that will be able to see the difference in
> common scenarios in move vendors latest hardware.
> On the other hand, many can see the difference
> between MCDI and blend (a simple software
> de-interlacer).
>
> (**) And hardware assistance to run in any reasonable
> power budget.
>
> (***) "May" as in someone still has to do the work.
> Typically that happens when someone with the
> appropriate skills has the itch to do the work.
>
>
Thank you!

My problem is I don't know the difference say between Raspberry Pi 3 B+
video output vs say NUC with Pentium J5005 - i see multiple NUC on amazon
with under $200

So just trying to see which way to go.
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