[mythtv-users] Very Low Cost Frontend

[John]

On 27/12/2019 11:52, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> VAAPI playback works very well in Myth 31 so unless you get US 
>> broadcast standard I would stick to a NUC for a combined front & back 
>> end.
>
> How does vaapi compare with vdpau these days? Is the deinterlacing as 
> good? Is automatic frame rate switching supported? (I realise that 
> last feature isn't strictly to do with vaapi, but I mean hardware that 
> supports vappi.
>
> Cheers,
>     Paul.
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See comments relating to VAAPI in the Render Branch Wiki (current 
master) -expected to be released for Ubuntu 20.04.

I believe that it is somewhat dependent on the feature set of the processor.

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/2019-render

On my 5 year old Haswell chipset the performance improvement of Master 
using VAAPI over Myth version 30 was noticeable.