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

Greg Thompson gthompson20 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 30 02:05:14 UTC 2014


Sorry, Didn't mean to send that twice...I now have HW 2x Deinterlacing
working with OpenGL.. While I had set up the realtime priority threading
with the Audio Group, I had not logged out and back in since adding my user
to that group.. I am now pretty happy with the NUC!

Greg


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Greg Thompson <gthompson20 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ok,
>
> Here is my final Verdict on the Haswell NUC Core i3 Model # D34010WYKH
>
> I built Myth .27 fixes from source (git pull tonight) and I can confirm
> that the new build does in fact get rid of 99% of the stutter with the
> video when the EPG is on the screen with 1 caveat:
> I have to be running either VAAPI with its Crappy Deinterlacing Support OR
> OpenGL with a software or Hardware non 2x Deinterlacer. If I run any 2x
> deinterlacer the video gets Jerky once the OSD or EPG comes up.
>
> Other than that I have been able to get the Nuvoton CIR receiver to work
> with IR-Keytable and LIRC and get the Media Center RC6 protocol remote to
> work great.
>
> If I could just run OpenGL with a HW 2x Deinterlacer I think this would be
> a GREAT fronted.. As is, I think I will have to live with a bit worse
> deinterlacing and run it on a secondary TV.
>
> While Typing this I have discovered another interesting issue... I get Video
> Stutter in the EPG if its a 720p Source Chanel (ESPN) but I don't with
> 1080i source TV Channels... Maybe a difference in 30fps video vs 60fps video?
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Greg Thompson <gthompson20 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok... Was looking around on TRAC and found this:
>
> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/1b16c65f465588a8991b730fb23ef0d1c61ed181/mythtv
>
> This sounds EXACTLY like my issue, and I am using the MythTV package from
> Xubuntu Repo's... Which I *think* may have been built before this was added
> to .27 fixes.
>
> So I am going to manually build .27 on the NUC and and see if it is any
> better!
>
> I will post what I find!
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Greg Thompson <gthompson20 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Tom,
>>
>> Thats exactly my setup except I only have 3 TV's...
>>
>> 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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