<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Calvin Dodge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caldodge@gmail.com" target="_blank">caldodge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Right now I'd say the answer is "no, it's not worth it", given that<br>
Newegg currently has the 32G/2G ECS Liva on sale for $79.99.<br><br></blockquote><div>Thanks for that hot tip. For $80 I couldn't resist buying one to try out.</div><div><br></div><div>After some fiddling, I got it to PXE-boot Ubuntu 14.04 like the other ION-based frontends. Strangely, it works for about 3-4 minutes after downloading the initrd.img file before it gets into the actual boot process. But once it's running mythfrontend, it's just as responsive as the ION frontends.</div><div><br></div><div>The frontend idles at 5 watts, and plays HD-PVR h.264 recordings with deinterlacing at 9-10 watts. Compare to the ION which idles at 19 watts and uses about 26 watts during similar playback.</div><div><br></div><div>Jim</div></div></div></div>