[mythtv-users] Cheap frontend for christmas

[Karl Newman]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:06 PM, digid myth <digidmyth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On another note I am going to try to get plex server up on one of these
> also. I do not want to run plex on my big server (Backend) due to security
> issues, or lack there of  that I am not happy with in Plex, but will just
> mount my server shares read only to it. I think there is enough CPU power
> to at least do 1 or 2 realtime transcode on videos and recordings from myth
> on this thing.
>
> The currently shipping model of this has the Bay Trail N2807 chip, which
has Quick Sync enabled (Intel's fast-but-crappy h264 encoding) which would
probably be a good fit for Plex if there is a build with support for it. (A
quick search shows that's an oft-requested feature but nothing yet, and not
much promising from the developers as they don't want to support many
specialized codebases for what they see as marginal gain.)

Karl
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