[mythtv-users] Coming Soon: EPIA M-10000

Brent Norris brent at biglinux.tccw.wku.edu
Fri Feb 7 12:28:10 UTC 2003


Well he said decoder so I was working with that, but I was just talking
about being a frontend.  No encoding only watching of mpeg4 files from
the backends.

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 22:44, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
> Depends if the MPG4 is Both a Encoder and Decorder at the same time.  If 
> not then Myth would kill a 266 in about 30 Seconds in live TV Mode.
> 
> Robert
> 
> Brent Norris wrote:
> 
> >I know this sounds a lot like the whole "mythtv on the xbox/ps2" thread,
> >but if this box really does have an onboard mpeg4 decoder, it would seem
> >that 266 might be acceptable for a frontend.  Of course that would
> >depend on Linux drivers, and mythtv using the decoder, but in that
> >situation won't most of the work be done in the decoder and not in the
> >CPU?
> >
-- 
Brent Norris <brent at linux.wku.edu>



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