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should work find for SD, even SD playback is fine on the ATOMs, with a non
HD Video card works also for SD.  I think your only bottleneck would be if
you did any transcoding.  If you have nice amounts of space, skip any
transcoding, or just do them slowly.

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>   I'm wondering if anyone has experience using an Intel Atom as a
> backend for standard definition only. Any problems?
>
>   I've mostly shifted to DirercTV and just use their recorder for the
> house but I don't have access to that in my office. I was thinking
> about setting up Myth to use my HDHR which still gets local channels
> off the cable. It's only going to record a few shows a night, mostly
> Letterman, Ferguson and maybe 1 or 2 network shows. I'll use external
> USB storage for the video.
>
>   This machine will not be used as a frontend. Backend _only_.
>
>   I had an old PowerPC-based Mac Mini which worked fine but may have
> bot the dust so if I cannot get it working I wanted to buy something
> _really_ cheap. I suspect this will work and am just looking for
> anyone who knows differently.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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