[mythtv-users] How To: Network DVD-Player as fullfledged Myth-frontend

[belcampo]

It should be possible I think/hope according things i read:
http://hawley.homeip.net/recycled-machine-mythtv.html
Running CPU: Pentium Celeron, 367 MHz and Hauppauge 350, hardware MPEG-2 
enc/dec
Performance
Once I checked the "Use the PVR-350's TV out MPEG decoder" box, playback CPU 
utilization dropped to 5 percent. When recording and playing back it sets 
around 10 percent.
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So what power is needed if the main things are done by the built-in 
hardware-decoder of the linkplayer. From the specs at 
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS5295862125.html

Sigma Designs is sampling a media processor chip for IPTV set-top boxes and 
high-definition DVD players. The SMP8634 supports Linux, and is claimed to be 
the first system-on-chip processor to support multi-stream decoding of any 
format, including up to two simultaneous high-definition streams, along with 
full-screen graphics.

or at: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8570522277.html

It is also offering an application stack that enables such devices to be used 
as low-cost PCs or notebooks costing less than $100.

I tried an old 300MHz PentiumII with 64MB as frontend and it works beautifully 
with an Nvidia card at 800x600 with 80% CPU load

Henk Schoneveld