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On 10/4/2010 11:18, J5K wrote:
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial">I know that Zotec kit has been used
in
the past with MythTV, but this is a new box.</font></blockquote>
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Yes, but its an ION. It runs off the same underpowered Atom and
nVidia graphics chip as every other ION2 device that MythTV can
use. Every time someone comes across a new ION system, they come in
here and ask if it will work with Linux/MythTV, but I honestly don't
know what would change that would cause it to work any differently
than any other ION system.<br>
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The same limitations apply as always. There is relatively little
power in an Atom, which means if VDPAU fails, you have nothing to
fall back on. Further, your intended use as a backend will be
hindered again by the lack of CPU power, but additionally due to
support for a single internal 2.5" hard drive, and (possibly) only
one internal expansion slot.<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:4CA9F037.9030006@klunky.co.uk" type="cite"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial">1. Will mythTV recognise the integrated
Blu-Ray player?<br>
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Yes, but native support for Bluray playback is not available until
0.24.<br>
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2. Somewhere in the specs I read that it could take a mini-PCI
Express
card. I think that it could use one of these, but I am a little
unsure. Does anyone know if mythTV would understand this card,
or are
there preferred ones out there that are known to work with
mythTV?</font><br>
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Often times these devices use a miniPCIe card for wireless. The
lack of any external antenna plug likely means it is built into the
case. You will have to drill your own hole for an antenna. As
always, MythTV does not support tuner cards, only the DVB API. If a
card exposes itself using said API, it will work with MythTV.
Please see: <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_PCIe_Cards#Supported_DVB-T_PCIe_Mini_Cards">http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_PCIe_Cards#Supported_DVB-T_PCIe_Mini_Cards</a><br>
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