<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</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;">
<div class="im">On Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:04:51 am Jurgen Kramer wrote:<br>
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> My suggestions is, if you really want HD and a mini, go for a mini which<br>
> has Nvidia Geforce graphics. I am using two (1x 2009 model, 1x 2010<br>
> model) both running Linux. Utterly silent. I do not use the internal<br>
> optical drives. The downside is their price...<br>
> I think the OS X version of Mythfrontend cannot/does not use the VDPAU<br>
> capabilities of the GPU and is therefore less usable for HD.<br>
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</div>Thanks, that's the sort of info I was looking for.<br>
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I figure if I'm seeing the Intel models now, the nVidia units should start showing up on the refurb market soon.<br>
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nVidia has been the graphics provider of choice for Myth systems for as long as I can remember, so it make sense it would<br>
be the way to go for any hardware.<br>
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<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I believe these have mini-pciE slots for the wireless cards, which you could replace with a CrystalHD decoder once the support in MythTV matures. It appears that it will be supported in 0.24 as an experimental feature. <br>
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