[mythtv-users] Nvidia ION frontend

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Sun Oct 7 05:00:57 UTC 2012


On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Ross Boylan
<RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 12:25 -0400, Tom Bongiorno wrote:
>> I currently have 5 Nvidia ION frontends.  All playing HD and Blu-rays
>> very well.  I use 8GB thumb drives or SD cards in all of them.  No
>> problems at all.  I am not sure if bootup would be quicker with an
>> SSD, but the expense was not justified for me.  I have long wanted to
>> try standby mode, but never got around to it.  My latest frontends
>> have been Zotac ZBox ID11 snagged on eBay for $125 each with $10 for
>> an 8GB SD card.
>>
>> -Tom
> I thought playing Blu-Ray, at least a random one with a commercial
> movie, did not work because the format is locked down.  Even MS Windows
> and Mac OS require special software, which seems to cost more than a
> blu-ray player.  Are you saying that's not a problem, or are you just
> using special Blu-rays, like ones you burned yourself?

clearly you need to read the last two or three versions release_notes :)

Yes you can play commercial blurays on mythtv, although like DVDs not
every one works.


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