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

[Steven Adeff]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> I've never delved much into the art of small quiet machines, but now
> that 90% of my content comes via my hd-pvr and nvidia's new API
> offloading decoding to the video card I imagine building a quiet tiny
> low-power machine is now in the VERY affordable price range.
>
> Any recommendations of such a machine that would be comparable to my
> AppleTV but accommodate a video card with a GPU supported by the new
> API?
>
> -Brad

In theory an Intel Atom based system could work well with VDPAU.
Phoronix posted some preliminary benchmarks with what NVidia has
released running on a 9800GTX 512MB using a h.264 file that NVidia
references in their release notes that comes from the sample
collection from the mplayer web site.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_vdpau&num=1

The results look quite good and should put CPU requirements well
within what the Atom could supply. Obviously I wouldn't buy hardware
now based on the idea that it could work in the future.

-- 
Steve
http://www.jobs-khakis-chicks.com/MythTV/
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