[mythtv-users] Nvidia ION => NUC - good idea?
Paul Gardiner
lists at glidos.net
Fri Oct 2 08:41:36 UTC 2020
On 01/10/2020 16:53, Rajil Saraswat wrote:
>
> On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 16:56, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net
> <mailto: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.
That's really useful to know thanks. So I'd definitely need a newish
model for HEVC support.
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