[mythtv-users] mythtv box not powerful enough?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

First up, no, there's no mythtv support for the crystal hd yet. On the
TODO list, its just a long and busy list...

> Actually the OP is from Australia (well his email address is), so I
> would assume its mpeg2, not h264.
>
> I think this crystal HD card is going to turn a lot of older laptops
> into frontends, provided they have minipci-e (note the 'e'). They'll
> have to be wired, or find a usb/pccard wireless option, as most only
> have one minipci-e slot.

My ThinkPad T61 has two full-sized mini pci-e sockets and one
half-sized socket, so its quite happily chugging along with both an
802.11n mini pci-e card and a crystalhd card, with room to spare.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com