2014-11-06, 17:03
Yes, I will try a thumb drive. What format is best? Ext4? Fat? NTFS?. I'm afraid anything I'm asked to test will have a fairly high latency, as I work long hours, and there is a very small window when I can play with this (after family goes to bed & Dad can break the TV).
One thing that does work is an RC6 remote control IR receiver, so that I can integrate it with my harmony setup. I need to figure out if I can use it on a hub with the USB-ethernet dongle without killing the network.
Any idea why the 1080i playback is so horrific? Even if the device does not have h/w accelerated mpeg2, we have 4 x86 cores here. I was decoding 1080i in ~2004 on a single core Pentium4 with MythTV. From the log on the OSD, we're at ~130% CPU when playing back 720p, and 290% CPU when playing back 1080i. (and 60% CPU when playing back a h.264 bd rip). Is the nightly build not optimized, or something like that? Is there any way to use the GPU to do some kind of partial offload, similar to xvmc or something?
Last, for somebody who has a firetv, how is the 1080i playback there?
One thing that does work is an RC6 remote control IR receiver, so that I can integrate it with my harmony setup. I need to figure out if I can use it on a hub with the USB-ethernet dongle without killing the network.
Any idea why the 1080i playback is so horrific? Even if the device does not have h/w accelerated mpeg2, we have 4 x86 cores here. I was decoding 1080i in ~2004 on a single core Pentium4 with MythTV. From the log on the OSD, we're at ~130% CPU when playing back 720p, and 290% CPU when playing back 1080i. (and 60% CPU when playing back a h.264 bd rip). Is the nightly build not optimized, or something like that? Is there any way to use the GPU to do some kind of partial offload, similar to xvmc or something?
Last, for somebody who has a firetv, how is the 1080i playback there?
