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Nice - what do you think of the MADI quality? Is it worth it?

I think if we tune the architecture a little bit more - we could get it going.

(2014-05-21, 14:29)fritsch Wrote: [ -> ]Nice - what do you think of the MADI quality? Is it worth it?

I think if we tune the architecture a little bit more - we could get it going.

To my untrained eye at deinterlancing the MADI looks really nice, better than VAAPI BOB for sure and the 50 FPS vs 25 FPS (deinterlancing off) is huge difference.

Are we contamplateing an OE-specific improvement or would this also be possible on XBMC running under a normal distro ? (provided kernel, modules, libs, etc... are at the correct version).

(2014-05-21, 11:54)lewzer Wrote: [ -> ]Owners of Q1900-ITX or similar, what temperatures do you get on idle and full load? I've noticed that my Q1900-ITX gets quite hot even in idle - ~61C (after the night of XMBC on, idling) and after an hour of playing blue-ray movie to 80C+. The room temperature is about 21C and there isn't any of airflow going around the room since all windows are closed, however, to comensate that I keep the top lid of case open. The heatsink gets really hot to the touch. The case that I use: http://www.minicase.net/product_E-I5.html
Installed like so: http://i.imgur.com/JCburUF.jpg
Setup: 2x2gb 1.5V ram, 320gb HDD, pci-e wifi card (unused), 60W PSU.

I do not think it should be getting THAT HOT, how about your setups?

In other areas everything works beautifully, the performance is really awesome.

With the Q1900B-ITX I got up to 60C after 15min of Prime95 FFT testing in the SH-55 case: http://www.ecosmartpc.com/sh55.html. In my experience, the E-i5 should have better temperatures than the SH-55. Try shifting the bracket away from the heatsink, even if you have to use only 2 of the 4 holes to secure the bracket to the case.

(2014-05-21, 14:54)Dougie Fresh Wrote: [ -> ]

(2014-05-21, 11:54)lewzer Wrote: [ -> ]Owners of Q1900-ITX or similar, what temperatures do you get on idle and full load? I've noticed that my Q1900-ITX gets quite hot even in idle - ~61C (after the night of XMBC on, idling) and after an hour of playing blue-ray movie to 80C+. The room temperature is about 21C and there isn't any of airflow going around the room since all windows are closed, however, to comensate that I keep the top lid of case open. The heatsink gets really hot to the touch. The case that I use: http://www.minicase.net/product_E-I5.html
Installed like so: http://i.imgur.com/JCburUF.jpg
Setup: 2x2gb 1.5V ram, 320gb HDD, pci-e wifi card (unused), 60W PSU.

I do not think it should be getting THAT HOT, how about your setups?

In other areas everything works beautifully, the performance is really awesome.

With the Q1900B-ITX I got up to 60C after 15min of Prime95 FFT testing in the SH-55 case: http://www.ecosmartpc.com/sh55.html. In my experience, the E-i5 should have better temperatures than the SH-55. Try shifting the bracket away from the heatsink, even if you have to use only 2 of the 4 holes to secure the bracket to the case.

Will try that, but what is strange to me is that even with the lid open the temperatures stay approximately the same. I've ordered 2 40x40x10 low RPM low db fans and will try to install them to sides in order to create some air circulation and see how much of a difference they make, however, I do not think that should be necessary.
Although I think the temperature issue is mostly because there is 0 air circulation going within the room even if the rooms temperature is not that high (22ish). If I do open the window and air from outside starts circulating within the room the temperatures drop to around 50ish C on idle and 65ish under load which is OK.
Could you please check the Vcore voltage of CPU in the BIOS? Thanks.

(2014-05-21, 14:45)Aquarius Wrote: [ -> ]Are we contamplateing an OE-specific improvement or would this also be possible on XBMC running under a normal distro ? (provided kernel, modules, libs, etc... are at the correct version).

You asked the very same back here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1714206

(2014-05-21, 13:27)fritsch Wrote: [ -> ]Here is another test-image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5572...1fdec9.tar - That one should fix at least the tearing.

Did a fresh installation of this image on the E3815 NUC. Disabled VDPAU and did not touch the other settings.

576i tests (Transformers):
VAAPI Motion Adaptive + Bilinear, 45-50 fps, judders (it seems like image would move backwards sometimes), deinterlacing quality is good, http://sprunge.us/fZLc
VAAPI BOB + Bilinear, 44-50 (overall ~2 fps lower than with MADI), quality ok, http://sprunge.us/CQWf
Bob + Bilinear, 50 fps, image is restless (as always with bob), http://sprunge.us/dGUQ

1080i tests (Servus):
VAAPI Motion Adaptive, few frames then delay of 5 sec, then few frames again, fps in the diagnostics says 8-50 fps though, http://sprunge.us/fFTY
VAAPI BOB, few frames then delay of 5 sec, then few frames again (maybe bit better than MADI?), fps in the diagnostics says 8-50 fps though, corruption of picture at one point, http://sprunge.us/HMVj
Bob, 50 fps, image is restless (though not so bad as with SD), http://sprunge.us/JgjG

(2014-05-21, 11:54)lewzer Wrote: [ -> ]Owners of Q1900-ITX or similar, what temperatures do you get on idle and full load? I've noticed that my Q1900-ITX gets quite hot even in idle - ~61C (after the night of XMBC on, idling) and after an hour of playing blue-ray movie to 80C+. The room temperature is about 21C and there isn't any of airflow going around the room since all windows are closed, however, to comensate that I keep the top lid of case open. The heatsink gets really hot to the touch. The case that I use: http://www.minicase.net/product_E-I5.html
Installed like so: http://i.imgur.com/JCburUF.jpg
Setup: 2x2gb 1.5V ram, 320gb HDD, pci-e wifi card (unused), 60W PSU.

I do not think it should be getting THAT HOT, how about your setups?

In other areas everything works beautifully, the performance is really awesome.

In a 27°C room, my Q1900-ITX processor is by ~50°C
I'm using Linux, doing some normal webbrowsing in Chrome and have it in a closed case together with RAM,SSD and PSU

There seems to be a J2900 motherboard on the market now:
http://www.legitreviews.com/intel-bay-tr...ard_141657

It's marketed as a Bay Trail Pentium this time.

(2014-05-20, 19:25)Dougie Fresh Wrote: [ -> ]Don't be a NUClehead. DIY FTW!

Now stop messin' in my thread all of you!

NUCs are a solution that are both small, quiet and fairly affordable. Great performance wise too!

(2014-05-21, 16:34)fritsch Wrote: [ -> ]

(2014-05-21, 14:45)Aquarius Wrote: [ -> ]Are we contamplateing an OE-specific improvement or would this also be possible on XBMC running under a normal distro ? (provided kernel, modules, libs, etc... are at the correct version).

You asked the very same back here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1714206

I didn't mean it quite the same way, but I see your point.
My appologies.

Which "way did you mean"?

(2014-05-21, 20:45)trsqr Wrote: [ -> ]There seems to be a J2900 motherboard on the market now:
http://www.legitreviews.com/intel-bay-tr...ard_141657

It's marketed as a Bay Trail Pentium this time.

Twice the price of the J1800 ones might be justified since you end up with a quad core, but it seems expensive compared to the J1900 ones. Especially since you consider that the GPU is essentially the same. (i.e. a J2900 wont play movies significantly better than J1800 and J1900, as far as I can see).

I wonder what is the actual performance difference overall compared to the J1900 and J2900. Judging by the passmark http://www.passmark.com/cpubenchmark/cpu...40+2.41GHz and http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=...Hz&id=2131
The J2900 has 2171 points
And J1900 has 2017 points

Everything rest is basically the same, same cache, same TDP and so on.The only difference is the clock speed. I'm not sure whether the J2900 is worth extra 30% or so of the price. Unless there are some other nice features that the J1xxx series do not have I do not think you would actually feel any difference over the dual/quad core celeron vs pentium

(2014-05-22, 11:39)fritsch Wrote: [ -> ]Which "way did you mean"?

The first question was "can I try this myself somehow on my distribution?". The second was "Will this be kept OE-specific if it is successful ?".

Sorry for the misunderstanding.