[mythtv-users] Nvidia ION => NUC - good idea?

[Rajil Saraswat]

On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 16:56, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:

> I've been using an old zbox as frontend for years now. It has worked
> really well, especially where it matters: video playback is perfect,
> interlaced or not, whatever the frame rate, with the TV always set
> correctly. Where it lacks a bit is in boot speed and a bit of lag in the
> menus but I don't find that hugely important. What is more of a problem
> is that I'm more frequently these days wishing to play HEVC encoded
> content and it just can't handle that at all: presumably because of the
> GT 610 graphics chip. So I'm considering moving to NUC. Is that a good
> idea? If so, any recommendations for which to choose?
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My front end is a NUC 5i5RYB which works very well with 1080p files.
However, i tried to play an HEVC file and it really struggled.  I ran
mediainfo on the file and it showed,

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : HEVC
Format/Info                              : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile                           : Main 10 at L5@Main
HDR format                               : SMPTE ST 2086, HDR10 compatible
Codec ID                                 : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC
Duration                                 : 1 h 55 min
Bit rate                                 : 8 359 kb/s
Width                                    : 3 840 pixels
Height                                   : 2 160 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 2.35:1
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 25.000 FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 10 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.040

Maybe newer NUCs are better.
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