[mythtv-users] Cheap Possible Frontend

[Dennis Hand]

 Brian Wood wrote: 
> I know, we've all seen the posts: 
> 
> "I (found in a dumpster / was offered for $5) a computer. All I know 
> about it is (It says "286" on the front / It says "Altair") and I was 
> wondering if it will work With Myth. I plan to connect it to my 
> network with (a 300-baud modem / my cell phone), and storage will be 
> (punch cards / magnetic drum). I will need to drive 6 High-Definition 
> displays simultaneously, each with a separate 1080i signal. Do you 
> think it will work ??" 
> 
> Not to be outdone, I found this: 
> 
> http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid»-U-BUDDIE-SYS&cat»K&cpc=JAD 
> 
> Since I have the RAM and the drives, I'm only risking $120. 
> 
> What I wonder about is the "64-bit 2D/3D graphics accelerator". Is 
> this just a UniChrome variant? I don't know much about those, but I'd 
> never heard they were 64-bit. What "acceleration" might it provide ? 
> 
> I'm wondering if it might do SD only, perhaps with XvMC or a 
> Unichrome-only driver ? I'd really like to be able to playback MPEG-4 
> streams, sort of a "Rich Man's MediaMVP that can do MPEG-4". 
> 
> 
> Brian Wood 
> beww[at]beww.org 


Hi Brian,

Doubt very much this is Unichrome capable. I recently sold a MythTV system very
similiar to this on Ebay. The model your looking at states a 1.1GHz which in fact
is a incorrect. It's actually somewhere around 800MHz. The onboard graphics is
an SiS chipset which should work very well especially using Thomas Winischhofer's
SiS driver. I used this along with an Avermedia M179 with this setup and the frontend only
pulled about 60%. With the improvements to MythTV it "should" run even lower than that.

Dennis Hand
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