[mythtv-users] Recommendations needed for new FE box

[David Engel]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 07:29:19PM -0400, Steve Greene wrote:
> David,
> Myself, I watch a lot of live TV, including 1080i content from CNN ("the
> crawl") and baseball (fast moving action). I have a NUC, and so far have
> been able to live with some tearing, but I recognize that software exists
> to leverage the built in advantages offered by VAAPI, but Myth is so far
> not designed to leverage that existing work, which is frustrating.

For an example of what your NUC is capable of, install Kodi and its
MythTV client.

> My NUC is a few generations old, but supports 4K, so I ought to be somewhat
> future proofed!
> 
> BTW, I'm serious about that bounty. I imagine quite a few fellow users
> might want to contribute to it as well.

Keep mentioning it.  Somebody might actually take you up on it. :)

David

> Steve
> 
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 6:34 PM, Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> > >
> >> > 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.
> >>
> >> For what do you want to use it?  MythTV, timestretch, YouTube, Prime
> >> Video, Playstation Vue, other streaming service, other HTPC function?
> >> Some boxes can do some of these, but no single box can really do them
> >> all well.  In other words, it all depends on what *you* want it to do.
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >>
> > My needs are extremely simple - I use Myth for music, videos (not TV
> > recordings - my own movie/homevideos collection), family photo.
> >
> > So basically my need is for a FE that will allow HD videos with HD
> > (generally speaking - HD-DTS, TrueHD, etc etc) passthrough, I also have
> > "some" H.265 movies that are currently unplayable owing to the ZOTAC ION
> > processor that can't handle it.
> >
> > I wanted to dab into the airplay but i only get the sound out - no video.
> > However, that is for another email chain since I don't want to hijack this
> > one by digressing.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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David Engel
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