[mythtv-users] Some advice on new hardware

[Jan]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Fred Squires <fsquires at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Johnny<jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> I do not need a Quad Core
> >>>> Hyper Extreme Whatever Edition, a decent dual core should do it for
> now and
> >>>> probably have some reserves for future possible HD playback. I want
> >>>> something with low energy consumption and little heat production. An
> Atom
> >>>> won't do it though, will it?
> >>
> >> No atom. But you may be able to get away with Core2Duo or pre-Phenom
> >> Athlon CPU, where you can get both the CPU and the motherboard for
> >> about $100.
> >
> > A user on the list recently reported using an ION system as a backend.
> > It had an Atom 230 I believe and he got near real time commercial
> > flagging with 1080i ATSC recordings. So an Atom system is feasible as
> > a backend depending on your use case. If you want real time commercial
> > flagging with mulitiple HD recordings etc, it probably won't cut it.
> > But if you only have SD or rarely record more than one HD show at a
> > time you may be happy with an Atom system. There are also more
> > powerful Atom processors than the 230.
>
> Also, some users have reported that the NVidia Ions (an Atom processor
> with an onboard NVidia 9400) work well for frontend only systems, even
> with HD when using vdpau. The only problem is, to use vdpau you either
> need to use SVN (version .22) or the backported patches (I've heard
> they work well but it's unsupported).
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Thanks for the input, guys...

Anyway, an additional case fan seems to have solved the stability problem
that I could use as a justification to upgrade the hardware, so I'll
probably delay the renewal some time...

Have a nice day!

Jan
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