[mythtv-users] inexpensive front end

Joseph Fry joe at thefrys.com
Sun Jun 9 00:37:32 UTC 2013


> Celeron 1610... or Celeron G540 is all you need for a combined
> frontend/backend HD system if your not overly concerned about deinterlacing
> and don't need VC-1 support (or encoding support if/when it comes).
>
> I am using a Celeron G540 now on my primary backend and it works great.
>  Decodes using VAAPI use <10% CPU, leaving plenty of overhead to commflag
> one or two HD shows in realtime while serving up shows to 2 other frontends.
>
> I am using mine on a 20" monitor in my office, and the picture is
> adequate... though I can see deinterlacing being an issue on a large TV.
>  However I suspect, though cannot confirm, that you could have the system
> output interlaced shows in their native format and let the TV handle the
> deinterlacing for you.. it's probably better than what the Intel HD
> Graphics can do.
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 7:53 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 11:10:21PM +0100, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> > On 07/06/13 20:25, jacek burghardt wrote:
>> > >I got htpc build on celeron 1610 for your 100 not including case. I
>> can get
>> > >low profile itx case and motherboard and celeron CPU for 110 and ddr3
>> for
>> > >40. I wonder if any of android sticks make good MythTV frontend
>> > >
>> > Cheap is all very well, but does it have graphics that mythtv can write
>> to?
>>
>>   If you are going to be doing HD, you need either a respectable CPU or a
>> respectable GPU. I am not sure the system described above includes either.
>>
>>
Sorry for the top post...

And the G1610 is an Ivy Bridge processor, so it may do VC-1 just fine...
It's really hard to determine if the "Ivy Bridge" or the "Intel HD
Graphics" line of this table is accurate:
https://01.org/linuxgraphics/community/vaapi
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