[mythtv-users] Trimslice ARM PC

[Mark Small]

On Thursday 22 December 2011 12:40:55 Tim Draper wrote:
> On 22 December 2011 16:29, Ian Bonham <ian.bonham at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I'm looking at replacing my backend and frontend myth setups shortly
> > (quick aside, thanks again to the developers for the time you devote to
> > Myth, it is deeply appreciated by many).
> > 
> > With an Eco head on, I'm looking at getting the power requirement down as
> > much as possible, and the new TrimSlice caught my
> > eye. http://trimslice.com/web/
> > 
> > It seems it would make a nice low power backend, with additional USB
> > storage, and also a nice front end (SD only at the moment, but when the
> > HD drivers come then better, but I'm happy with SD for most of my video
> > at the moment)
> > 
> > I was wondering what, if any, experience people had got using ARM based
> > PC's for Myth? Even as a test I'm tempted to put Debian on my Zaurus
> > SL-C3000 and run the Pri backend on that as an experiment, so see how it
> > interacts with a secondary backend / frontend under the TV and the pri
> > can wake the secondary up to record when necess.
> > 
> > Any thoughts or suggestions?
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > 
> > Bon
> 
> based on the fact an atom is considered too slow for a BE, i'm going
> to say that the TrimSlice isnt upto the job. i've not looked at actual
> performance numbers if there are any.
> might be OK as an FE though presuming you can get myth compiled on ARM
> arch. _______________________________________________

I run my myth master backend on an Arm based NAS box.  It has similar guts to 
a sheevaplug.  The debian-multimedia.org archives actually have packages 
precompiled for ARM, so things definitely will compile.

I don't know about the frontend though.  It would need good video drivers 
(very rare on ARM) that are supported by myth for any sort of acceleration.  
That seems unlikely for now.

Mark