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Some us do not transcode, nor record or watch blueray or HD and run<br>
quite happily on low end Atom stuff.<br>
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The term "low end" is very much relative. Your average 1.6-1.8GHz dual core Atom is nearly an order of magnitude higher performance than the 700MHz ARM11 in the RPi. That's not including the performance penalty hit when you start swapping on a machine with ~200MB of memory, compared to an Atom which will more likely have 1-2GB.<br>
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I was using that as a point of reference, showing performance complaints on an Atom when opening a large library in Watch Recordings, to point out potential problems on a yet significantly lower end system.<div class="im">
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I acknowledge it may not run much but I hope it might run a low end<br>
front end, so please let's not write it off just yet.<br>
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I'm not writing it off. I'm just explaining the hurdles to go through in using it, and that the addition of hardware MPEG2 support, rather than just H264, makes no real difference.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>
I wonder how lite mythtv could be as it stands today with just changes to settings, theme, and OS. </div></div>