[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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