[mythtv-users] Intel Compute Stick as a frontend?

[Tom Harris]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Robert Kulagowski <rkulagow at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Grant McChesney <grantmc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This PC-on-a-stick really intrigues me.  I wonder if it will work as a
> > frontend.  I'd love to replace my Revo frontends with something small
> like
> > this.
> >
> > Summary:The PC-on-a-stick will come pre-loaded with Windows 8.1 for
> $149, or
> > Linux for just $89, when it starts shipping in March.
> >
> >
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/ces-2015-intel-introduces-compute-stick-with-atom-quad-core-cpu/
>
> I'm actually at CES and when I visited the Intel booth none of the
> engineers could actually point me at actual hardware; many of them saw
> the same announcement but couldn't tell me anything about it because
> it just wasn't on the floor.
>
> I'll check again tomorrow.
>

These things seem to be generally available now..  Has anyone taken the
plunge and set one up as a MythTV frontend?

I'm wondering if this could displace my old Atom/Ion machine.   Does it
have VAAPI support?  How does that compare with an Ion1 with VDPAU?
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