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> I'm contemplating just buying a stock system of some kind rather
than<br>
> assembling something from parts. Since I've upgraded to two
outboard<br>
> capture devices (HD-PVR and HDHR), I don't really need my old
PVR-150 any<br>
> more and that opens me up to smaller (fanless?) computers with
VDPAU capable<br>
> graphics cards. In fact, VDPAU (and a reasonable CPU just to run
the<br>
> frontend GUI) are about my only requirements since I can use the
HDHR IR<br>
> pickup via TCP/IP.<br>
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>One additional thing I just remembered. I'm doing channel changes via<br>
>Firewire so built-in Firewire would be pretty important (are there USB<br>
>dongle Firewire devices? Does that even make sense?).<br>
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>--<br>
>Mike<br><br>I have had great luck with my Aopen MP945-DR. It doesn't have VDPAU but it has integrated intel video and has a core 2 duo (instead of atom chip). It is about the size of a Mac Mini and it has firewire 400. I ran the machine with an external 1 TB hard drive with a HD-PVR and HDHR for a little while and had a lot of success displaying 720p. There is also an HDMI adapter for the DVI out and optical audio. The machine was really quiet and fairly low power and I would still be using it if I didn't get budget to build something with multiple internal hard drives and more tuners.<br>
<br>I have never found a USB -> firewire adapter so you would need to get something with internal firewire 400 (800->400 adapter <i>might</i> work)<br><br>BTW. I have upgraded to a bigger machine I built myself and am selling the AOpen if you are interested.<br>
<br>--<br>Justin Garrison<br><a href="http://1n73r.net">1n73r.net</a><br>