[mythtv-users] Quiet cheap frontend for 1080p

[chris biddick]

I have had good luck with a Zotac zbox ion d525.  Its tiny, almost
perfectly silent.  I have it setup as the primary FE/secondary BE.  It is
recording 2 programs from my HD HOMERUN to USB drive.  Playback with vdpau,
1080 is fine. Commflag jobs run quickly while I'm asleep.  I got mine with
DVD player, probably should have spring for blue Ray...  Control it with
mythmote, or simple mce remote.  Now using a xmas gift harmony 700 instead
of mce.
I will say it seemed to playback better in .24 than it does now in .25.
I'm still on fence about .25, seems buggy.
Initial setup of the zotac ( in .24) had me searching internet for settings
for about a week though.
Good luck with whatever you choose .
Chris
On Oct 4, 2012 8:13 PM, "MonkeyPet" <monkeypet at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone have a suggestion? I want a quiet mythtv frontend capable of doing
> 1080p. Fanless is preferred, but if it is really quiet that will be okay.
> Small enough to be set top box. Also want it cheap so I can buy multiple.
> No I don't want media players since I already own two and I also like the
> commercial skip feature of mythfrontend. Also I don't want to use samba or
> upnp to access the mythtv backend. Just want to run the mythfrontend in all
> its glory.
>
> Thanks.
>
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