[mythtv-users] Advice on a silent PC/Mini ITX for DVI and DVB-T (maybe -S)

Thor mythtv at x-defense.de
Tue Apr 1 19:08:54 UTC 2008


Nicholas Piper wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm considering switching from Sky TV in the UK to MythTV, DVB-T or
> DVB-S(2?).
>
> My TV is an LCD with HDMI in, which will use DVI + analogue audio
> too. It's an HD TV, so I thought I'd want a MythTV setup that could
> cope, but I'm not certain now based on the hugely increased hardware
> requirements.
>
> To start with, I thought I'd want a very small Mini ITX machine that
> has no fans or disks - I'd NFS mount some storage and a root
> filesystem for booting. I'd put in a single Nova-T PCI card with two
> tuners.
>
> To make the most of the TV (because then it would be easy to use for
> non-TV applications too), I thought to use DVI rather than S-Video
> with a TV Encoder chip. However, most cheaper Mini ITX boards I find
> require an add-on to do DVI, which puts the price into the 100-120 GBP
> region. For that range (135), I could get the EX10000EG Motherboard
> with Fanless 1GHz C7 CPU -
> http://www.icp-epia.co.uk/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=186 This
> has the 'advantage' of the HD-capable CX700M2 graphics processor, but
> as of right now, this isn't supported for mpeg2 decoding -
> http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=HardwareCaveats
> and I suspect the 1Ghz CPU isn't up to doing SD mpeg2 while I wait?
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a Mini ITX motherboard which
> would have DVI output, is cheap (so slow is OK), but has a supported
> hardware mpeg2 decoder to make up for the lack of overall CPU power?
>
> Or might I regret a slower processor, when I find I can't watch Flash
> based video, mpeg4, etc.?
>
> Much thanks for any advice,
>
>  Nick
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I wasn't able to get an epia board running stable with usb-dvb-t tuners. 
tried 2 different terratec and one from MSI.

more details can be found here : http://myth.x-defense.de/MythTV_Box_2.html
document is not finished, and sorry for bad english.


thor




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