[mythtvnz] Intel DC3217IYE Desktop Computer - I3

[Mark George]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:57:36 +1200
Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz> wrote:

> On 22/07/13 12:52, Mark George wrote:
> >   - These things have cooling issues - they just made them too
> > small, and only have a CPU cooler.  Given the cramped space if you
> > combine the SSD with a WiFi card the SSD overheats and drops
> > offline whenever you are making heavy use of both which is not
> > ideal.  A recent BIOS update cranks the CPU fan up a bit to try to
> > deal with the heat, and so far I haven't had any further problems.
> > It will be interesting to see what will happen on a hot day.
> 
> I use the Black version and haven't had any cooling issues at all. It 
> runs warm but very stable.
> 
> >   - VAAPI is still immature.  It has one functional deinterlacer
> > (linear blend), and struggles with smooth playback, dropping frames
> > regularly.  I switched to using CPU decoding rather than hardware
> > because it results in smoother playback but it is still not
> > perfect.  A lot of work has been going into the Intel graphics
> > drivers in recent kernels so hopefully these problems will be fixed
> > soon.
> 
> I run XBMC/OpenELEC rather than MythTV/Ubuntu, have had no problems 
> playing back any files.
> 
> hads

Hi Hadley.

Do you have the WiFi card in there too?  A lot of the cooling problems seems be caused the WiFi card being jammed practically hard against the SSD.  I bought the wrong version - I wouldn't need the WiFi if I had an ethernet port, and probably wouldn't have as much trouble with cooling.

Are you definitely using VAAPI for the decoding?  I'm not sure how you verify that with XMBC.  I haven't yet tried XBMC with Myth recordings - that would be a useful test.


Cheers,
Mark