[mythtv-users] Seeking hardware opinions
Simon Kenyon
simon at koala.ie
Thu Jun 3 08:20:39 EDT 2004
> Hardware:
> VIA Epia MII 6000E mainboard w/ 600MHz Eden ESP fanless
> processor Morex 3688 mini-ITX case Hauppauge PVR-250 MCE 2.5"
> HD (probably 4-12 GB) slim DVD-RW/CD-RW drive 256MB DDR memory
>
> That's about it. I will be using NFS for the actual video
> storage, as you might have guessed from the HD size. The VIA
> board has TV-out support and hardware MPEG-2 decoded, though
> I'll probably just do software decoding because of the
> support for more formats.
I don't think so.
I have several M-9000 boxes and software decode is not a runner.
Hardware support is required; albeit this is supplied by the motherboard.
>
> 600 MHz is the fastest fanless CPU offered on that board.
> Will that be sufficient since I'll be using hardware
> encoding? I've played DVDs with a 500MHz processor before
> and didn't have any problems. I'm fairly sure that the
> onboard video has Xv support so that should help the CPU out a lot.
Remember this is a C3. what 500Mhz processor ae you talking about?
--
simon
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