<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 2010-09-17, at 21:33, Nick Rout <<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Stephen Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:satkins@inetdesign.org"><a href="mailto:satkins@inetdesign.org">satkins@inetdesign.org</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello everyone. Well after a year dealing with Tivo I've decided my wife isn't the ruler of the house and we're going back to a Myth box! BTW yes I am sleeping with one eye open now:)<br>
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I've been trying to find some info on these atom processors and how well they might work with myth to do both a front and back end. I currently have a Asus AT3N7A-I which is a Atom 330 1.6Ghz dual core with nVidia Ion graphics.<br>
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I can receive three OTA HD channels and a few old school SD channels (I'm in Canada). So I'm just wondering if this thing can handle it or am I going to need some more power? If it can does anyone have some settings that would optimize it?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br><br>An ion box will certainly play back pretty well anything you throw at it, providing you are comfortable running the nvidia drivers.<br><br>Use as a backend depends on your usage case. recording digital tv will be fine. transcoding and comm flagging will not be as fast as a more powerful processor.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div>So long as you record the analog feed with a tuner which does hardware encoding (PVR-500 or HVR-1950) it should be fine. I bought a Zotac ION board and it slurped up 2 hdhr feeds and an HVR 950 USB without problems. Played back OTA HD like a charm. </div><div>It is now the trixbox server at the office! Doesthat well too.</div><div>So it comes down to the tuners. If your board has a pci slot you could go for a pvr 150/250/500 if you can find one. Otherwise best choice at the moment appears to be the HVR1950 using USB . A friend has just set up a mythbox and had no problems getting it working with mythbuntu. Drivers appear to be good. </div><div>Good luck.</div><div>Geoff</div></body></html>