[mythtv-users] Inexpensive, preassembled, VDPAU-friendly frontends

[Allen Edwards]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Michael Lynch <lynchmv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I recall posts saying that pci was not fast enough to do HD video.  In
>> reviewing the post
>> http://mail.google.com/mail/#search/pci/11d723c9402b8274 it seems like
>> the concern was having the capture card and the video card both PCI.
>> I assume you are going to use a HDHR, which works great by the way, so
>> you will not have that problem.
>>
>> Allen
>
> For me, this would be a frontend system only.  With that said, does
> the listed system still seem (including the USB sound) viable as a
> frontend only?
>


It is the frontend that determines the CPU requirment. The backend is
easy.  There is a follow on post from Ray that speaks to the issue of
the PCI buss better than I can.

It is a nice looking solution, I hope it works our for you.  Please
keep me posted how it does work.

Allen