[mythtv-users] Hardware databases

Douglas Mayle dmayle at dmayle.com
Wed Jan 28 20:00:03 UTC 2009


On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Brian Wood wrote:

> On Wednesday 28 January 2009 11:47:06 Marc Feldman wrote:
>
>> Of course, there is working and there is "working".
>> I am trying to tweak an Acer Aspire One as a combined FE/BE  with a
>> Hauppauge HVR-950 for over-the-air digital and HD.  HD files play  
>> fine
>> outside Myth, but the internal player sputters and goes out of  
>> sync.  I
>> will continue doing my homework and trying to make the most of the  
>> on-board
>> Intel graphics.  Once I think I have gotten things as good as I  
>> can, I
>> would be happy to add to the wiki.
>
> Interesting. I have one of those Aspire Ones, but I never even  
> thought about
> using it for Myth, or any part of Myth. I just assumed it was too
> underpowered.
I find that kind of amusing... I used to use a Cobalt Qube as a Myth  
backend (AMD K6II-3 at something like 350Mhz).  As long as you're  
doing the necessary heavy lifting in hardware you don't need too much...
>
>
> I assume this is one of the Atom-powered units?
>
> I also have an Eee 900, I thought about possibly using it as an SD  
> frontend,
> but for now I just watch files from an SD card or a flash stick.
>
> If you do make a WiKi entry, would you please post a note here to  
> that effect?
> Thanks.
>
>>
>> I wonder, is there any standard way of testing a MythTV set-up to  
>> determine
>> how well it is working?  It would be great if there were some way at
>> looking at smoothness, sync., tearing, etc.
>
> Hard to say. I have noticed that artifacts that some consider  
> acceptable are
> thought of as "totally unusable" by others. The only real test is to  
> use it
> yourself and see if you are satisfied. "Working" is just too  
> subjective a
> term and there are far too many variables.
>
> Some people are OK with having to transcode, for example, while others
> consider that not acceptable. Some worry all the time about LiveTV,  
> while
> others never use it.
>
>
> -- 
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