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Francesco Peeters wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Francesco Peeters schreef:
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<pre wrap="">Hi all,
Does anybody have any experience with the 'new' PCChips M863G Geode3600+
(Athlon2800+ 'mobile') (v7.1) MoBo?
It looks nice enough for a frontend, although it doesn't have S-Video or
composite output (Which isn't too much of an issue for PAL TV's with
SCART), but will it bear the brunt of an added backend?
My main concerns are an apparent lack of S/PDIF (though I may have
overlooked it <G>) and audio performance as well as how it performs for
video-playback.
(I am planning - for starters - to have a PVR-150 in there and run both
frontend and backend on it. I hope to add separate backends in the
future, and maybe drop the tunercard in this one, although I like the
idea of it being able to work standalone if needed)
TIA!
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Ok, in view of the replies, what miniITX board (not necessarily with
on-board processor, though it is easier,and usually cheaper),
preferrably with s-video out, would the on-list guru's advise for above
setup instead?
I am on a relatively tight budget, so $ 400+ nanoITX boards are out of
my league! ;-)
Cheers!
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I have had no problems running mythtv with a PVRx50 card on both an
EPIA-M10000 (
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.logicsupply.com/product_info.php/cPath/78_76/products_id/32">http://www.logicsupply.com/product_info.php/cPath/78_76/products_id/32</a>
) and an EPIA-SP8000 (
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.logicsupply.com/product_info.php/cPath/78_76/products_id/306">http://www.logicsupply.com/product_info.php/cPath/78_76/products_id/306</a>
). The M10000 is far cheaper (almost 30%) but will not do
hardware-accelerated MPEG4. The SP8000 will do MPEG4 (when the drivers
support it) and is fanless.<br>
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I am hoping to get my hands on an EPIA-EN board board from the epiOS
guys soon, but I have to talk them into it first :)<br>
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I am not endorsing the site whose URLs I posted, they were just handy
and have the specs readily available.<br>
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W<br>
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