Also, I have a question about the abilities of VDPAU. Is it only h.264? I have a system with 2 HDHomeRun units, and I have a potential front-end with a Sempron at 1.6 GHz. Right now it cannot keep up with normal HD channels, and I would like to fix that, but they are mpeg2 streams, not h.264. Will VDPAU help with them? <br>
<br>Oh, and also, if I upgrade to the dev versions, will I still be able to connect to my back end? I know that with every previous upgrade, I have had to upgrade the back end to get compatability.<br><br>Matthew Asplund<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:05 AM, leo fischer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lsf.mythtv@gmail.com">lsf.mythtv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Steven Adeff <<a href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com">adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Brad DerManouelian<br>
> <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I've never delved much into the art of small quiet machines, but now<br>
>> that 90% of my content comes via my hd-pvr and nvidia's new API<br>
>> offloading decoding to the video card I imagine building a quiet tiny<br>
>> low-power machine is now in the VERY affordable price range.<br>
>><br>
>> Any recommendations of such a machine that would be comparable to my<br>
>> AppleTV but accommodate a video card with a GPU supported by the new<br>
>> API?<br>
>><br>
>> -Brad<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>I don't know why everyone is so excited about using current atom or<br>
epia boards with VDPAU.<br>
Via epia boards are hugely expensive, and you won't be using any of<br>
the features you pay extra for (tv-out, etc.) Current atom boards,<br>
although cheap, all use the ancient 945 chipset, and with both you<br>
have to buy an expensive & rare PCI card that supports VDPAU.<br>
You might as well buy an integrated nvidia chipset board (8x00 or<br>
9x00) and a low power CPU. silentpcreivew rates the atom D945CLF as<br>
using 27W at idle <a href="http://www.silentpcreview.com/article865-page5.html" target="_blank">http://www.silentpcreview.com/article865-page5.html</a>,<br>
vs ~40W at idle with a 8300 & 4850e<br>
<a href="http://www.silentpcreview.com/article853-page5.html" target="_blank">http://www.silentpcreview.com/article853-page5.html</a> or ~40w at idle<br>
for a 9300 & e7200 <a href="http://www.silentpcreview.com/article892-page5.html" target="_blank">http://www.silentpcreview.com/article892-page5.html</a><br>
& you should get even better idle numbers with a 45nm 5x00 intel cpu,<br>
for a similar price to the epia. This would match or beat almost any<br>
combination of epia or atom board + nvidia gfx card you could get.<br>
The only catch is that I can't find any info on how well linux behaves<br>
on the nvidia igp boards, although they are obviously supported by the<br>
new nvidia driver.<br>
<br>
There's even the JETWAY NC62K-LF with the 8200 iif you're stuck on<br>
mini-itx, which goes for about $150 here in japan.<br>
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