[mythtv-users] New system configuration

[Christopher Kerr]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Christopher Kerr <mythtv at theseekerr.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Kaare Rasmussen <kaare at jasonic.dk> wrote:
>> The central box might very well be based on
>> - 1 ASRock Nettop ION 330 HTBD
>> - 1 E30 Combo Plus DVB-T/C
>>
>> So far so good.
>
> No, not really - the Ion boxes don't make very good backends -
> recording DVB streams is generally fine (provided you use a desktop
> drive, not a smaller, slower laptop drive), but tasks like commercial
> flagging will be very slow.

Additional clarification: unless you plan to have the backend machine
connected to a television, and thus being used as a frontend (I'd
recommend not, you'd be surprised how annoying the hard drive noise
during recording can be), using an Ion system makes no sense - the
Atom processor is too slow, and the nVidia Ion graphics chip won't be
used for anything.

Also, I think the HTBD model includes a blu-ray drive? There is
currently no support for playback of blu-ray material under linux - it
can be ripped to containers which MythTV can play, but we don't really
talk about that on this list since it's in breach of copyright law in
many jurisdictions.

- Chris