[mythtv-users] Is interleaving memory still the best bet for an Atom?

jk90090 jk90090 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 06:47:25 UTC 2012


On 1/10/12 9:27 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 11 January 2012 14:21, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
>> The VDPAU implementation prefers 512MB of video memory, and the old
>> shared memory ION systems required 2GB of system memory before they
>> would allow you to allocate 512MB to graphics.  Your ION2 D525 has
>> dedicated video memory built into it, and does not share between the CPU
>> and graphics.
> For info.
>
> I've just build a new frontend based on a 2010 mac mini (nvidia 320M).
> It has 4GB of RAM, but only 256MB of video ram.
>
> I have to say it works brilliantly. I would have thought 256MB
> wouldn't be enough.
>
> I replaced the 320GB hard drive with a cheap 40GB intel SSD (not much
> faster than the hard drive really)
> It's by far the best frontend I've ever setup.
>
> It's tiny... Use 0W in sleep mode (well, I can't detect a power usage
> with the basic tools I have at hand) and 11W watching live TV.
> It peaks at 17W when I scroll fast in the recording list.
>
> So tiny power footprint.
>
> Setting it up with mythbuntu 11.04 was a breeze, everything worked out
> of the box with no mess up, including sleep mode.
>
> What took me the longest was setting up the remote control. With
> mythtv, the basic 6 buttons on the remote are useless. So playing with
> the remote that allows to change the base code, I recorded about 50
> unique IR codes that I mapped to my logitech remote.
> I can put it to sleep with the remote, and the beauty is that it wakes
> up when the TV is powered on...
>
> Too bad the new mini has an ATI or intel graphic...
>
> Jean-Yves
> ______________________________________
JY, sounds great, any 1080i or 720p playback issues?




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