[mythtv-users] Quiet cheap frontend for 1080p

Patrick Ouellette pat at flying-gecko.net
Sun Oct 7 00:30:34 UTC 2012


On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 04:53:23PM -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:53:23 -0400
> From: "R. G. Newbury" <newbury at mandamus.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Quiet cheap frontend for 1080p
> To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> 
> On 10/05/2012 02:22 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
> >On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Pieter De Wit<pieter at insync.za.net>  wrote:
> >Not sure whether it's gonna play 1080p on mythtv though!
> >
> >>
> >>Sent from my iPad
> >>
> >>On 5/10/2012, at 16:13, 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
> 
> I bought an early Zotac ION after seeing the nvidia reference board
> at CES 2009.
> 
> Any of the ION's will play 1080p just fine using vdpau. You will
> want at least 2Gig of Ram, since the video ram comes out of the main
> ram space, but that's really the only gotcha.
> I did not try it as an FE only but I suspect that you can get away
> with USB or SD memory if it is just an FE. The heavy lifting is done
> by the BE box.

ION2 boards have dedicated video ram.

Pat


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