[mythtv-users] Quiet cheap frontend for 1080p

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:16 AM, chris biddick <c.biddickfam at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have had good luck with a Zotac zbox ion d525.  Its tiny, almost
> perfectly silent.  I have it setup as the primary FE/secondary BE.  It is
> recording 2 programs from my HD HOMERUN to USB drive.  Playback with vdpau,
> 1080 is fine. Commflag jobs run quickly while I'm asleep.  I got mine with
> DVD player, probably should have spring for blue Ray...  Control it with
> mythmote, or simple mce remote.  Now using a xmas gift harmony 700 instead
> of mce.
> I will say it seemed to playback better in .24 than it does now in .25.
> I'm still on fence about .25, seems buggy.
> Initial setup of the zotac ( in .24) had me searching internet for
> settings for about a week though.
> Good luck with whatever you choose .
> Chris
> On Oct 4, 2012 8:13 PM, "MonkeyPet" <monkeypet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Anyone have a suggestion? I want a quiet mythtv frontend capable of
>> doing 1080p. Fanless is preferred, but if it is really quiet that will be
>> okay. Small enough to be set top box. Also want it cheap so I can buy
>> multiple. No I don't want media players since I already own two and I also
>> like the commercial skip feature of mythfrontend. Also I don't want to use
>> samba or upnp to access the mythtv backend. Just want to run the
>> mythfrontend in all its glory.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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I too am running the three of ZBoxes you speak of.  What setting were you
searching for a week?  I have had no problems, with no special
configuration other than selecting VDPAU.  Of course, I am using Mythbuntu
which makes it pretty turnkey.

-Tom
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