[vdr] Advice for best hardware and plugins to play MKV files and receive 4K channels

[Karim AFIFI]

Hello,

I plan to upgrade my VDR box, with these two important features :
- reading mkv files => I am using xineliboutput and vdpau.
- receiving 4K channels => for HD, I am using old PCI/PCIE motherboard + TBS6928 (with CI).

Could you share best hardware cpu/video/card,motherboard/..., & best plugin/driver/... you advice at the moment?

Thanks for ther feedback.
Karim

[Karim AFIFI]

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Post by Karim AFIFI
- reading mkv files => I am using xineliboutput and vdpau.
xineliboutput and VDPAU so I assume what you actually mean by mkv is
being able to play back HD or greater content using VDPAU for decoding
and xineliboutput to get the decoded frames to your tv.

Correct, my 4K mkv files are using H.265 codecs, HD files are using H.264.

Post by Karim AFIFI

VDPAU is EOL.

Ok, I didn't know it.

Post by Karim AFIFI

Nvidia currently has NVDEC but I can't speak to how well it's
supported since I dumped VDPAU for VAAPI a while back.

I just found informations here :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration

Post by Karim AFIFI
Could you share best hardware cpu/video/card,motherboard/..., & best plugin/driver/... you advice at the moment?
When I switched from VDPAU to VAAPI I retired my old hardware and just
spent about $120 on an Intel NUC, and couldn't be happier. I'll never
bother with video cards again for htpc/media playing boxes. And also
non-usb tuners. Low power/low space is my theme now so my days of
building pc's for this purpose are over. You might want to look at
other options unless you actually want a pc tower.

I am not looking for a very small pc case, because I have 3 x dvb PCIE cards and a Digium card (for Asterisk). I will probably keep my medium Silverstone aluminium case, and I will choose an ATX or mini ITX motherboard, depending power and efficiency.

I didn't understand which player/plugin you advise in VDR.
- MPlayer was very good but no longer works...
- Media Player in Xineliboutput is convenient but little buggy under VDPAU...




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Post by Karim AFIFI
Could you share best hardware cpu/video/card,motherboard/..., & best
plugin/driver/... you advice at the moment?

I do not know a best one but....
I faced same situation when my old good nvidia ion platform cannot
handle hd channels properly. I tested different plugings with intel HD
graphics (integrated in dell laptop via vaapi) but did not get any of
those working as old systems. Facing problems with instability, splitted
pictures, out of syck, and "jumping" fast forward modes (I look a lot of
movies/series in 2-4 times speed up as in here we have subtitles).
Shortly to say i did not manage to archive proper system with any of vdr
plugins.
Now im trying using VNSI & kodi in android tv and it still look
promising. Just testing it currently inside on older laptop. Other great
thing there is that i can move my server (including dvb sick) away from
living room to garage and use only small and better looking device in
living room.

[Karim AFIFI]

Hi,

Thanks for sharing this.


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Post by Karim AFIFI
Could you share best hardware cpu/video/card,motherboard/..., & best
plugin/driver/... you advice at the moment?

I do not know a best one but....
I faced same situation when my old good nvidia ion platform cannot
handle hd channels properly. I tested different plugings with intel HD
graphics (integrated in dell laptop via vaapi) but did not get any of
those working as old systems. Facing problems with instability, splitted
pictures, out of syck, and "jumping" fast forward modes (I look a lot of
movies/series in 2-4 times speed up as in here we have subtitles).
Shortly to say i did not manage to archive proper system with any of vdr
plugins.
Now im trying using VNSI & kodi in android tv and it still look
promising. Just testing it currently inside on older laptop. Other great
thing there is that i can move my server (including dvb sick) away from
living room to garage and use only small and better looking device in
living room.

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[Karim AFIFI]

Thanks a lot for the feedback !

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Post by Karim AFIFI
xineliboutput and VDPAU so I assume what you actually mean by mkv is
being able to play back HD or greater content using VDPAU for decoding
and xineliboutput to get the decoded frames to your tv.

Correct, my 4K mkv files are using H.265 codecs, HD files are using H.264.

Since dumping Nvidia I haven't kept up with what their current cards
capabilities are so I can't advise on an Nvidia card that does
HEVC/h265. My NUC handles it great though! ;)

Post by Karim AFIFI
I didn't understand which player/plugin you advise in VDR.
- MPlayer was very good but no longer works...
- Media Player in Xineliboutput is convenient but little buggy under VDPAU...

I originally used mplayer, then mplayer2, and lastly mpv player. The
vdr-mplayer plugin + mpv player has worked great. All you have to do
to switch from mpv is just change your mplayer.sh (or whatever you
call your player script) from using the mplayer bin to mpv bin.

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