<div dir="ltr">I myself use couple front-ends with celeron gt1610 and master backend the cpu and matx asrock set me 65 between amazon and microcenter . I got couple matx cases for 30 . I had couple ssd and 2tb hard drive. i am running mythtv 0.26 So botom line is that for 100 i got motherboard/cpu case and i found 2 gb sticks 9 each. I found 8 gb for 32. I am using xbmc as frontend and playing hd tv i see 6 to 10% usage and HD mkv rips about 12 %.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:32 AM, glen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glenb@glenb.us" target="_blank">glenb@glenb.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 6/23/2013 7:56 AM, Lee Donaghy wrote:<br>
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i've played around with UVD and a e350 too, as you found video plays great in mplayer.<br>
i haven't tried mythfrontend but did find similar problems in xbmc, perhaps myth and xbmc expect extra features from the nvidia hardware and not purely decoding video.<br>
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using a foxconn nettop with amd e-450 w/ 1.66 dual processor. On nightly lubuntu saucy image, with drm next 3.10 kernel, mesa 9.2 built from git, and myth 0.25 fixes built from source. I get fairly decent results with vdpau. With a hdhomerun grabbing only 1080i and 720p channels. I set a profile to avoid vdpau on the 720p and use it on the 1080i. I had to set the vdpaubuffers a little higher in vdpau and use deinterlacing to advanced 1x. The result on a 40 inch samsung is not perfect but acceptable for most shows. the vdapu cannot do the 720p very well but the standard plays it fine. for h264, only 1080 24 fps works, higher framerates are not smooth.<br>
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I suspect with a stronger processor this might work. In vdpau the processor use drops to around 25 per cent, down from near 70 per cent in standard.<br>
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I think they still have a bit to go with this, but for a second room frontend this an inexpensive solution. i paid 119 for the nettop on sale from newegg and 12 dollars for memory stick.<br>
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I looked at mplayer but not extensively. It seemed to play a 1080p 24 fps movie in vdpau without issues.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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