[mythtv-users] Super Micro X7SLA Atom server board for backend

[Herman Gerritsen]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Justyn Butler
<justynbutler at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I would have thought an Atom backend would be fine for the recording
> and streaming jobs, but it would be extremely slow for
> transcoding/advert detection etc.
I figured streaming(for the transcoding) would be processor intensive.
But the transcoding is seperate from the streaming clearly than.
Than again, if advert detection is processor intensive
the use of an Atom in a Backend seems less interresting than.

>Atom chip, and the GMA 950 chipset. It plays mythfrontend
>*beautifully*, nearly as well as my Core Duo machine. Thats SD content
>though, we don't get HD at the moment.
An Atom in a frontend seems more logical because of its low power useage.
Less power, less heat, less cooling, less noise ;)
Though you say that it plays "nearly" as well, I would have thought
it would play one stream without any problem.
Is the processor the bottleneck in this case?

Herman