[mythtv-users] nVidia ION motherboards - Single- or Dual-Core?

[Tom Lichti]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:59 PM, David Asher <asherml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 20, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Tom Lichti wrote:
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>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Tom Lichti <redpepperracing at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>> What was never really answered for me was whether the single core was
>>>>> up to the new myth-ui stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone on this list have a comment on that?
>>>>
>>>> Trunk works just fine with Graphite, Blue-Abstract, Terra and
>>>> MythBuntu themes on a single-core Atom.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Don't suppose you have any experiance of XBMC on a single core atom?
>>
>> No experience with XBMC on it, no. My system is running from a USB
>> key, Mythdora 10.21 with SVN laid on top. I haven't tried Graphite in
>> a few weeks, but Mythbuntu (which I use now) loads the same
>> fanart/backgrounds and it works fine. There was a bunch of work done
>> to improve the caching/displaying of fanart in the mythvideo section,
>> and it seems to be quite responsive now.
>
> Another question: are you generating your previews remotely on the backend?
>  Or have you installed mythbackend on your frontend to allow it to generate
> them locally?

Remotely. I'm not saying it's instant, but it's certainly bearable,
and once the preview is there, it's pretty quick. As I mentioned,
MythBuntu theme is overall decently quick.

Tom