[mythtv-users] nvidia ion for a front end?

Fred Squires fsquires at gmail.com
Wed Apr 14 19:01:52 UTC 2010


On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:46, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 14 April 2010 10:26:01 am David Durham wrote:
>>> This looks like a cool little device that might be suitable for a frontend:
>>>
>>>   http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/204754
>>>
>>> $179 for a barebone nvidia Ion net top sounds like a good price, but
>>> how well does mythtv play with ion?  I think the crux of the issue is
>>> probably whether or not vdpau would work.  Anyone have any knowledge
>>> of this?
>>
>> The Revo 1600 with the ION works fine. It won't do the more advanced de-
>> interlacers, if that's important to you.
>>
>> You do need to add RAM to the base unit to get enough to allocate sufficient
>> video RAM for VDPAU. That adds about $30 to the $199 price.
>
> I haven't added RAM to my new unit just placed into service, yet.
> Seeing if I need it. Seems to work fine so far.
>
>
> brad

I believe that NVidia's minimum system requirements for VDPAU, ask for
512 MB of RAM. With 1 GB the Revo only allocates 256 MB to the video
card, so technically it's not supported and could have problems. That
doesn't mean it won't work, it's just not officially supported.


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