<div dir="ltr">Celeron 1610... or Celeron G540 is all you need for a combined frontend/backend HD system if your not overly concerned about deinterlacing and don't need VC-1 support (or encoding support if/when it comes).<div>
<br></div><div>I am using a Celeron G540 now on my primary backend and it works great. Decodes using VAAPI use <10% CPU, leaving plenty of overhead to commflag one or two HD shows in realtime while serving up shows to 2 other frontends.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am using mine on a 20" monitor in my office, and the picture is adequate... though I can see deinterlacing being an issue on a large TV. However I suspect, though cannot confirm, that you could have the system output interlaced shows in their native format and let the TV handle the deinterlacing for you.. it's probably better than what the Intel HD Graphics can do.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 7:53 PM, jedi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org" target="_blank">jedi@mishnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 11:10:21PM +0100, Mike Perkins wrote:<br>
> On 07/06/13 20:25, jacek burghardt wrote:<br>
> >I got htpc build on celeron 1610 for your 100 not including case. I can get<br>
> >low profile itx case and motherboard and celeron CPU for 110 and ddr3 for<br>
> >40. I wonder if any of android sticks make good MythTV frontend<br>
> ><br>
> Cheap is all very well, but does it have graphics that mythtv can write to?<br>
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If you are going to be doing HD, you need either a respectable CPU or a<br>
respectable GPU. I am not sure the system described above includes either.<br>
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