2013-07-04, 09:46
Dont have any ETA for next pivos box..., but i'm pretty sure it's the best choice for android box.
For Nuc, it suffers for me with a few problem :
- advanced deinterlacing (which will be solved with haswell)
- 24p (which will be solved with haswell)
So for myself i decided to wait for the next NUC which will be i'm pretty confident (again ^^) the killer htpc.
Also, do you plan to get TV physically on it (in this case you will have to go for a x86 box)? Do you need infrared remote controlle/bluetooth ?
For an x86 build you could look on the Zotac website.
To resume, here an extract form Openelec site :
1 Power Usage, to get a cool and also silent experience
2 Video Codec support to decode video content on the GPU, here we talk mostly about h264, VC-1, mpeg2 and mpeg4/xvid.
3 Bitstream Audio Support, e.g. TrueHD and DTS-HD
4 LiveTV watchers also need accelerated deinterlacing to get their 1080i and 576i TV-Streams decoded properly.
Intel supports items 1, 2 and even 3 since a long time. One remaining problem was the deinterlacing support, to get low power chipsets like the Celeron 847 into being a multitalent. This point was ruled out lately. Timo Rothenpieler (Btbn) a longterm vaapi enthusiast implemented the first deinterlacer within xbmc for vaapi by using the VPP (Video Postprocessing API). It was possible by the changes introduced into libva and libva-intel-driver by Haihao Xiang. In the future, we will also deliver Temporal / Spatial deinterlacing, that has just been released for Intel Haswell. The Haswell Chip is actually already supported with our new vaapi driver packages, Temporal / Spatial deinterlacing will come later (if we find some hardware to actually test it).
With all this work being done, Intel delivers a really great experience on Linux htpcs, and closely moves into the direction where Nvidia has been best the last couple of years. Thank you so much, to all people that have tested the Intel VPP work in the special thread over at our forums.
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For Nuc, it suffers for me with a few problem :
- advanced deinterlacing (which will be solved with haswell)
- 24p (which will be solved with haswell)
So for myself i decided to wait for the next NUC which will be i'm pretty confident (again ^^) the killer htpc.
Also, do you plan to get TV physically on it (in this case you will have to go for a x86 box)? Do you need infrared remote controlle/bluetooth ?
For an x86 build you could look on the Zotac website.
To resume, here an extract form Openelec site :
1 Power Usage, to get a cool and also silent experience
2 Video Codec support to decode video content on the GPU, here we talk mostly about h264, VC-1, mpeg2 and mpeg4/xvid.
3 Bitstream Audio Support, e.g. TrueHD and DTS-HD
4 LiveTV watchers also need accelerated deinterlacing to get their 1080i and 576i TV-Streams decoded properly.
Intel supports items 1, 2 and even 3 since a long time. One remaining problem was the deinterlacing support, to get low power chipsets like the Celeron 847 into being a multitalent. This point was ruled out lately. Timo Rothenpieler (Btbn) a longterm vaapi enthusiast implemented the first deinterlacer within xbmc for vaapi by using the VPP (Video Postprocessing API). It was possible by the changes introduced into libva and libva-intel-driver by Haihao Xiang. In the future, we will also deliver Temporal / Spatial deinterlacing, that has just been released for Intel Haswell. The Haswell Chip is actually already supported with our new vaapi driver packages, Temporal / Spatial deinterlacing will come later (if we find some hardware to actually test it).
With all this work being done, Intel delivers a really great experience on Linux htpcs, and closely moves into the direction where Nvidia has been best the last couple of years. Thank you so much, to all people that have tested the Intel VPP work in the special thread over at our forums.
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