[mythtv-users] Is the Acer Revo still the best frontend?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 11/09/2010 11:12 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> Apple Mac Mini + Broadcom Crystal HD then. Latest flash player actually offloads to the crystalhd reasonably well, though its not yet 100% stable. Or Apple Mac Mini w/nVidia graphics running Mac OS X, where there's decode offload to the GPU.
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> Of course, with the software scaling and compositing in Flash, you're fixing the 5% problem and leaving the 95% problem with the CrystalHD.  :)
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> That said, a modern Mac Mini with appropriately-chosen CPU and VDPAU-compatible NVIDIA GPU is a great frontend system.
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> Yeah, you can *choose* to buy an under-spec'ed Mac Mini.  But you can /not/ choose to buy a sufficiently-spec'ed Atom-based system.
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> Or, for those who don't want to pay Apple prices, there are other ways to get the same benefits as the Mac Mini for cheaper.

Not if the benefits you're after are "silence" and "tiny footprint". I haven't seen anything else out there in a similar form-factor w/enough shaders to do advanced 2x deint *and* enough cpu to decode in software if need be, for any less than a Mac Mini. If such things do exist though, I want to know about them. :)

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