[mythtv-users] New system configuration

[Greg Cope]

On 14 Apr 2010, at 11:40, Christopher Kerr <mythtv at theseekerr.com>  
wrote:

> 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.

My revo r3610 dual core atom comm flags at 56fps on high biteate sd  
content.  Is that slow?  I thought it was near real time?

> 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.

Oh... I need to tell my dual core atom revo to slow down as I never  
thought it slow :-)

Agree in the hard drive issue.  Even buying quite disks I still hear  
mine, and they are usually amplified if put in a cabinet.  Consider a  
long esata cable to another room (I use a grage to hide the lot with a  
long USB and hdmi cables) or a nas.

Greg