[mythtv-users] Low end NUC as backend/frontend?

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:52 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 01:44:11PM -0500, Greg Thompson wrote:
> > Tom,
> >
> > Thats exactly my setup except I only have 3 TV's...
>
>     Anything short of a Tornado warning doesn't really have to be "live"
> though. Even with "event television" like the Superbowl, I would want to
> wait long enough to cover the commercials in the broadcast so that I am
> never going to "catch up" with them.
>
> >
> > If anyone finds a distro that works well with the NUC's let me know.. For
> > now I guess I will look for a different solution that involves VDPAU
> > hardware. Seems that the OpenGL performance of the integrated Intel
> HDXXXX
> > graphics is just not up to the task of Live TV.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Tom Bongiorno <tbjr at bongohut.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:42 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 08:57:25AM -0500, Greg Thompson wrote:
> > >> > Hi David,
> > >> >
> > >> > Those settings work well when just watching videos... the issue I
> have
> > >> is
> > >> > when I hit 'S' to bring up the guide and move around the live TV
> picture
> > >> > pauses frequently. Also when I arrow up or down to bring up the On
> > >> Screen
> > >> > display the picture becomes jumpy.
> > >> >
> > >> > I know a lot of people on this list will say 'Your Doing it wrong,
> Myth
> > >> is
> > >> > most useful at recording blah blah' but for ultimate WAF I have to
> have
> > >> > live TV viewing working well... She watches a lot of Channels that
> are
> > >> no
> > >> > good being recorded... (QVC, HSN etc)
> > >>
> > >>     Why bother feeding video through the PVR if you're just going to
> watch
> > >> something like QVC? Just have a separate cable box on a different TV
> > >> input.
> > >> Anything else and you are squandering a tuner that could be hard at
> work
> > >> recording stuff for you.
> > >>
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> > > I, for one, rent no cable boxes.  All seven TVs go through one Ceton
> tuner
> > > card.  Live TV is every bit as important as the PVR function.  The
> idea of
> > > a tuner only being for time shifting a recording is just short sighted.
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I will take it one step further:  Nothing has to be watched at all.  We
should all throw away our TVs and read a book, commercial free!
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