[mythtv-users] Is the Acer Revo still the best frontend?

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Tue Nov 9 16:12:47 UTC 2010


On Nov 9, 2010, at 8:47 AM, jedi wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 12:08:58AM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Nov 8, 2010, at 11:54 PM, Kevin Ross wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/8/2010 8:25 PM, Charles Wright wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> If there were another system in a similar form factor that I can hide
>>>> behind my television (the Revo is just zip tied to the TV bracket),
>>>> but with enough CPU to do Flash and have the appropriate
>>>> virtualization extensions; I would personally consider replacing my
>>>> Revo.
>>> 
>>> Any mini-ITX form factor motherboard with onboard nVidia graphics, with a real CPU instead of an Atom would do the trick, such as the Zotac GF9300-I-E.  Put it in an m350 case from mini-box.com, plus a PicoPSU, and strap it to the back of your TV. :)
>> 
>> See also: Apple Mac Mini.
> 
>   Tried that. It wasn't very satisfying. Flash seems to want a CPU that can
> handle HD h264 easily on a single core. It doesn't seem to multithread very
> well. Although it can multithread well enough to use up every spare cycle on
> every core you happen to have.

Apple Mac Mini + Broadcom Crystal HD then. Latest flash player actually offloads to the crystalhd reasonably well, though its not yet 100% stable. Or Apple Mac Mini w/nVidia graphics running Mac OS X, where there's decode offload to the GPU.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com



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