[mythtvnz] Frontend died - replacement?

[OpenMedia Support]

> On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 22:46:41 +1300, you wrote:
>
>>My Frontend has just died & I'm using a spare - which I can't seem to get
>>smooth video on.
>>
>>The replacement is a Gigabyte Brix with a quad core J1900 Celeron clocked
>>@ 2G with 4G of RAM and a 32G SSD. This should be more than enough for a
>>1920x1080 display but I'm getting lots of jaggies on movement and some
>>videos (H264 - probably captured off Freeview) have micropauses that
>> makes
>>the sound stutter.
>>
>>Any idea on what video profile I should use? I'm still on 0.28 and its so
>>long since I set up the original that I can't remember how to navigate to
>>the 'in depth' setup screens.
>>
>>Failing getting the Brix working, any ideas on a decent replacement? I'm
>>thinking an i5 NUC but maybe that's an overkill (and by the time RAM,
>> disk
>>etc is added it getting pricey!).
>>
>>Cheers
>
> That sounds like you are having problems with the deinterlacing.  As
> best I can recall, older Intel GPUs do not have the best of
> interlacing modes in hardware, but they should do better than that. So
> I think you are trying to do it all in the CPU and it is not good
> enough for that.  Try playing a 1080p video - it should play fine.  If
> so, then look at the hardware deinterlacing options in the VAAPI
> settings and see if you can get an acceptable picture with them.  Also
> see if you have the display profile set to use all cores of the CPU -
> it may default to using 1 core only.
>
> It might be time to upgrade also - v31 has major rendering upgrades,
> including better support for Intel video hardware.

Does the hardware support vaapi?

Try running "vainfo" on the command line.