[mythtv-users] Low Power Frontends (in anticipation of nvidia's new API)

[jedi]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:01:32AM -0500, Andrew Barbaccia wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Ma Begaj <derliebegott at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 2008/12/18 Andrew Barbaccia <andrew at monolithmc.com>:
> > > Excellent - let us know.
> > > Also, a little more about your setup - is it a frontend only, or a
> > combined
> > > BE/FE?
> > > Looking forward to your results!
> > > -a
> > >
> >
> >
> > When Atom boards with Nvidia graphics come out, it should be possible
> > to use it for backend and frontend simultaneously.
> >
> > M.
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> 
> Agreed. But some of the operations (like the DB queries when viewing the
> channel guide) might be a little intensive for the Atom considering it's a
> user interface and *should* be snappy. I'm simply curious of Doug's
> results.

    If you are worried about the db, throw memory at it. The Myth DB is
small enough that you can run the whole thing from memory and not worry
about the speed of the CPU. What hammers the database are keyword search
based recording rules.