[mythtv-users] Perfect, Small, Quiet, Cheap, HD Frontend??

[jedi at mishnet.org]

> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Michael D. O'Brien <obrienmd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:44 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:25:54PM -0800, Jarett Creason wrote:
>> > > Everex is going to sell these on NewEgg, supposedly, March 1st...
>> So,
>> > > anyone have any input on whether this would play 1080i and 720p HD
>> > > content?  It comes loaded with their gOS, but I assume, since it's
>> all
>> > > standard hardware, that one could easily load another distro of
>> their
>> > > choice on it??
>> >
>> >     This should be fine. It's basically sounds like a black mac mini.
>> >
>>
>> Problem is, that PDC series (T2xxx) is not based on core 2 duo, it's
>> based
>> on core duo.  It may have some issues @ 1080i w/ deinterlacing, although
>> the
>> new multithreaded ffmpeg decoding for mpeg2 might help out.
>>

    I've got the 1.66 mini and it's had no problems with HD.

    What's the real difference between the two? I'm curious since
I've recently gotten a 1.83 mini for another room.

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