[mythtv-users] State of mythtv on the beagleboard

[Jeff Walther]

> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:26:06 -0500
> From: Marc Randolph <mrand at pobox.com>


> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Michael D. O'Brien<obrienmd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Does it have the power to decode, deinterlace and display 1080i mpeg2?
>
> I think the answer is yes....  but let me put my question up top here
> for those that don't make it through this whole message:   What is the
> slimmest memory footprint anyone has run with a front-end?  These only
> have 256 MBytes of RAM.

The AppleTV, which has been used as a front end by many, has 256 MB of RAM
and no way to upgrade it without surgical soldering...

That does end up being a performance limiter in some situations.

Jeff Walther