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Does anyone know of a version of this guide for installing a no-desktop environment and getting the most out of the stable builds?
You know, for those of us who have girlfriends/fiance's/wives/etc we live in, and if the HTPC crashes even once, wind up in a 2 hour argument about why we cant just have normal TV like everyone else? :p
I - for one - really don't care about the latest features or performance, I just want to get the most out of a rock stable version :p
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I think you should read the howto..
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yes - stick with milhouse builds.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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Yes - man. This guide here is used by more than half a million users. And you know they all use these settings cause they like the worst and most ugly looking video processing ...
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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I was configured latest milhouse test build to use render method software , and disable vdpau , vaapi .
I run it on i7 with intel hd3000
Picture quality is great , no playback issues.
Then i saw this thread , i tried the guide . Can't notice much difference. But now i lip sync not good.
I want to know your expert opinion about disabling hardware acc and use software render ? Sorry if my questions is boring or dumb , i 'm not a pro. Just experienced user .
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They are sadly not that smart :-) as exactly this is described with pictures in the very first post.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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One question about dvblink pvr it's not staying enabled and automatically gets back to disable state. I tried to install other builds but it doesn't let me. Is it going to be fixed in next build?
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2016-03-21, 09:19
(This post was last modified: 2016-03-21, 09:20 by QBJack.)
First thanks for all the development here on the EGL features.
I am using the latest EGL 6.0x version for a few months now and am very happy with it so far. The colors are great for movies (mkv, avi etc.). But a few days ago I noticed, that the color range does not fit when watching live TV. Especially when watching a movie where there are black bars at top and bottom of the screen. They are very dark grey and not black. The same bars with MKV movies from HDD are really black. I have VDR running as backend and frontend on the same machine.
I checked the settings several times but cannot find an error / misconfiguration. Maybe I missed something and didn't realize that it would not work for live TV but I see no reason why it souldn't...
Can somebody please clear up if live TV should also work with the correct color range like for my movies? If it should do, please advise me where to look to find a fix for that.
Thanks a lot!
QBJack