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[[wikipedia:Intel_GMA|Intel Graphic Media Accelerators]] (or GMA) are integrated GPUs commonly found on Intel-based motherboards.  Their performance, and their driver support in x.org, have been improving at a steady pace for several years now; as of 2008, Intel's drivers are open-source, and are generally agreed upon to be excellent in quality and well maintained by Intel and Tungsten Graphics, who are now two of the most significant contributors to x.org.
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[[wikipedia:Intel_HD_and_Iris_Graphics|Intel HD and Iris Graphics]] are integrated GPUs commonly found on Intel CPUs.  Their performance and their driver support in x.org, has been improving at a steady pace for several years now.  Since 2008 Intel's drivers are open-source, and are generally agreed upon to be excellent in quality and well maintained by Intel.  Intel Integrated GPUs seem to be an excellent choice for a MythTV frontend.
  
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Because of their well-maintained, open drivers, and presumably because of low power consumption (compared to discrete GPUs on PCIe cards) and adequate performance, Intel GMAs would seem to be an excellent choice for a mythtv frontend; unfortunately, '''little is known about how well they actually work.'''
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If you have any experience with these GPUs in MythTV frontends, please add it to the experience matrix so others can benefit from your experience!
  
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'''If you have any experience with these GPUs and mythtv frontends, please post it here so others can benefit from your experience!'''
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= Performance and power consumption =
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Since the release of the [[wikipedia:Intel_GMA#GMA_X4500|GMA X4500]], the 3D performance of Intel GPUs is now within reach of nVidia's integrated offerings, see [http://www.notebookjournal.de/praxis/79/2 here].  This would seem to indicate that an X4500 is more than enough for typical MythFrontend duties.  These GPUs can use the [[VAAPI]] library for hardware accelerated decoding.
  
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= Performance =
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Users and reviewers often claim that Intel GPUs have very low power consumption.  There seems to be consensus that integrated GPUs in general (including the Intel GMA) are much more power efficient than discrete ones.
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With the release of the [[wikipedia:Intel_GMA#GMA_X4500|GMA X4500]], the 3d performance of Intel GPUs is now within reach of Nvidia's integrated offerings. (see [http://www.notebookjournal.de/praxis/79/2 Notebook Test News auf notebookjournal.de - Praxis - Exclusive: Intel Centrino 2 Performance Test])  This would seem to indicate that an X4500 is more than enough for typical Myth front end duties.
 
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= Power Consumption =
 
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Users and reviewers often claim that their Intel GMAs have very low power consumption.  There seems to be consensus, at least, that integrated GPUs in general (including the Intel GMA) are much more power efficient than discrete ones.
 
  
 
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* [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=com.ubuntu%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&q=intel+(gma+OR+integrated+OR+x4500+OR+x3500)+watts+idle+%22power+consumption%22&btnG=Search Google search: intel (gma OR integrated OR x4500 OR x3500) watts idle "power consumption"]
 
* [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=com.ubuntu%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&q=intel+(gma+OR+integrated+OR+x4500+OR+x3500)+watts+idle+%22power+consumption%22&btnG=Search Google search: intel (gma OR integrated OR x4500 OR x3500) watts idle "power consumption"]
  
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= Intel GMA setups known to work as a MythTV frontend =
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= Intel GPU Experience Matrix =
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* The Intel Mac Mini: see [[Installing MythTV on an Intel Mac Mini using Ubuntu]]
 
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* The Acer Aspire One netbook
 
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* Asus P5E-VM HDMI, Intel 82G35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller / Intel G35. ([[User:Judaz|Judaz]] 14:57, 2 February 2009 (UTC), see [[User:Judaz#xorg.conf]])
 
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* Asus P5QPL-AM, Intel G41 chipset (X4500 graphics), with Pentium Dual Core E6300.  1080i MPEG-2 content shows 45% CPU usage when using the "High Quality" playback profile with Kernel deinterlacer.
 
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* HP/Compaq DC7700 with Dual Core CPU, Intel 82Q963/Q965 integrate GMA with XvMC enabled in xorg.conf and XvMC options on TV playback options. Handles SDTV just fine using and it keeps up well with 720 streams. 1080 streams occasionally skip and audio drops in attempts to keep up with stream.
 
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*Asus Motherboard P7H55-M Pro with integrated Intel H55 Chipset and Intel i5 6 series (Clarkdale) 680 @ 3.6 GHz (the series 6 enables the onboard Video). This works well with standard def, but I had to turn composite OFF to get a jitter free x264 1080 playback. I cannot use openGl and also had to be very careful with which de-linterlace mode I use (linear blend). Wrong settings would lead to stutters in playback of HD.  I did finally get to a working setup.  Without disabling composite in X HD was not watchable no matter what playback settings I chose.  I am using ffmpeg with blit and linear blend.
 
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* Acer Aspire Revo RL80 (Core i3 SandyBridge with  Intel HD Graphics 2000). Getting graphics working correctly involved applying [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=77018 this] patch to [http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel/snapshot/drm-intel-next-2013-03-23.tar.gz this] kernel. Apart from the kernel, the rest of my rig is running Debian Squeeze, and MythTV v0.25.1. Result: working Intel integrated graphics with kernel modesetting. As a side-effect, this kernel seems to do Intel audio better than other kernels I tried (which all produced choppy audio); this may have been because trying to play video using the VESA driver was bogging down the CPU. Whatever. With this patched kernel, the RL80 makes a pretty good MythTV frontend (it's almost completely silent, and it looks quite cool). Built-in Wifi and SD card support is working. Basically, this kernel supports all the hardware in the RL80. Mucho kudos to Dan Vetter and the rest of the Intel Graphics team for sorting this out for me! <br>''Update'': I now have this hardware working well with MythTV v0.26.1, Debian Wheezy and a stock (unpatched) 3.12 kernel.
 
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= Known Issues with MythTV =
 
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The release of the 2.7.0 intel-xorg drivers should resolve previous issues with tearing.  Xv-blit should now function acceptably.  These drivers should also fix the green hue previously experienced with the opengl video renderer.
 
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* [[Intel_DG965OT]]
 
  
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= Intel GMA Feature Matrix =
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Below is the experience matrix for the Intel CPU with integrated graphics when using MythFrontend.  Please report your findings (playback profiles etc) in the table and list any problems.  Note that some entries refer to chipsets before GPUs were placed on the CPU die.
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{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-color:#8eabd0; background:#e7edf5"
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! Model Name  !! Model Number !! Onboard video!! 1080i playback        !! Bluray playback !!Extras!! Power consumption / TDP !! Released
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|| Pentium    || G3240        || Intel HD    || {{YES}} (YADIF/Greedy)||    {{YES}}      || OpenGL render || 20W idle / 54W          || 2014
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|| Core i7    || Sandy Bridge || Intel HD 3000 || {{YES}} (Bob(2x,HW),Onefield(1x,HW))|| {{YES}} || OpenGL render - Z68 Express Chipset || {{Unk}} || 2011
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|| Core i3    || Sandy Bridge || HD 2000 || Likely, no problems reported|| {{Unk}}      || Acer Aspire Revo RL80 || {{Unk}} || 2011
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|| Core i5    ||680          || Intel HD    || {{YES2|Limited}} (linear blend) gittery || {{YES2|Limited}} || H55 Chipset || ? / 73W || 2010
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|| G35 Express || 82G35        || 82G35        || {{Unk}}              || {{Unk}}        ||  -  || ? / 28W                || 2007
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|| Pentium    || X4500 / G41  || X4500        || {{YES}} (Kernel)      || {{Unk}}        ||  P5QPL-AM mobo || ? / 65W      || 2006
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|| Q965 Express||  82Q965      ||  82Q965      || {{YES2|Limited}} Skips|| {{Unk}}        || -    ||  ? / 28W                || 2006
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Revision as of 00:40, 14 December 2014

Intel HD and Iris Graphics are integrated GPUs commonly found on Intel CPUs. Their performance and their driver support in x.org, has been improving at a steady pace for several years now. Since 2008 Intel's drivers are open-source, and are generally agreed upon to be excellent in quality and well maintained by Intel. Intel Integrated GPUs seem to be an excellent choice for a MythTV frontend.

If you have any experience with these GPUs in MythTV frontends, please add it to the experience matrix so others can benefit from your experience!

Performance and power consumption

Since the release of the GMA X4500, the 3D performance of Intel GPUs is now within reach of nVidia's integrated offerings, see here. This would seem to indicate that an X4500 is more than enough for typical MythFrontend duties. These GPUs can use the VAAPI library for hardware accelerated decoding.

Users and reviewers often claim that Intel GPUs have very low power consumption. There seems to be consensus that integrated GPUs in general (including the Intel GMA) are much more power efficient than discrete ones.

See:

Intel GPU Experience Matrix

Below is the experience matrix for the Intel CPU with integrated graphics when using MythFrontend. Please report your findings (playback profiles etc) in the table and list any problems. Note that some entries refer to chipsets before GPUs were placed on the CPU die.

Model Name Model Number Onboard video 1080i playback Bluray playback Extras Power consumption / TDP Released
Pentium G3240 Intel HD Yes (YADIF/Greedy) Yes OpenGL render 20W idle / 54W 2014
Core i7 Sandy Bridge Intel HD 3000 Yes (Bob(2x,HW),Onefield(1x,HW)) Yes OpenGL render - Z68 Express Chipset Unknown 2011
Core i3 Sandy Bridge HD 2000 Likely, no problems reported Unknown Acer Aspire Revo RL80 Unknown 2011
Core i5 680 Intel HD Limited (linear blend) gittery Limited H55 Chipset  ? / 73W 2010
G35 Express 82G35 82G35 Unknown Unknown -  ? / 28W 2007
Pentium X4500 / G41 X4500 Yes (Kernel) Unknown P5QPL-AM mobo  ? / 65W 2006
Q965 Express 82Q965 82Q965 Limited Skips Unknown -  ? / 28W 2006
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