[mythtv-users] Configuration for Australia

[Bill Williamson]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Phil Wild <philwild at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks heaps, I will look into these cards...
>
> I was hoping that I could build a fairly low end system (fanless) with
> a good graphics card that performed the decompression of the video
> stream in hardware - well that was the plan anyway....

1. Please do not top quote
2. As others have stated, the problem is that there are no accelerated
h264 decoders for linux.  THe popcorn hour uses a dedicated chip for
h264.  This SHOULD change with the work intel is doing on a new video
API, but that is still a ways off.

Note that you CAN use a popcorn hour as a "video playing only"
frontend via UPnP (sometimes buggy) or a fileshare.  The popcorn
hour's video output is not matched by any PC I've tried.