[mythtv-users] Re:PVR-250/350 and MiniITX?

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 07 May 2003 09:09 pm, Jamison Wilde wrote:
> I have 2 mini-itx systems, ME6000 and
> M10000(Nehemiah). I got the ME6000 first, while
> waiting for the Nehemiah.  With the Matrox g200 PCI
> card->MJPEG ($90 from compuvest), I got good results
> on the ME6000(no fan).  Playback maxed the system,
> uncompressed audio, but hey it did work, video was
> okay a few dropped frames, etc.  Recording was easy,
> 25% of CPU. LiveTV worked at decimation 2, 50%.  (I've
> now converted this box to an mp3 server now that I
> have the M10000)

How warm does your Nehemiah get during load (say, while compiling mythtv, 
after it's done with most of the compile, but before it's finished)?

> With the M10000, everything works great.  I don't know
> how much more processor is required for the PVR250,
> but for the g200 MJPeg, LiveTV works great.

Considerably less CPU is required for mpeg2 playback.

Isaac