[mythtv-users] Sony Vaio, perhaps?

[Brian Wood]

On Thursday 02 April 2009 14:01:42 Mike Perkins wrote:

>
> The back end doesn't need to do much processor grunt work, these days. If
> it's digital, it's just sucking the data out of the [air/cable/dish] and
> squirting it on the disk(s). It *does* need to be reasonably able to handle
> the i/o load you're going to throw at it, though.

Transcoding, burning DVDs and the database are pretty well it. Even my old 
Athlon 3700+ can do commflagging in real time, at least fot SD.

>
> The front ends need to be able to do the grunt work, to take the streams
> that you've stored on disk and reformat them for display on your
> [monitor/TV/projector].

Most of that work can be offloaded to the video card with VDPAU.

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