[mythtv-users] Intel Compute Stick as a frontend?

Paul Kendall pkendall64 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 07:08:35 UTC 2015


I've been using a MeegoPad T01 for quite a while now and it works very
well. All my recordings are either 1080i or 720p h264. They play fine with
audio over HDMI using VAAPI.
I actually replaced an ION1 system with the MeegoPad.

Cheers,
Paul

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 3:08 PM Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Robert Kulagowski <rkulagow at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Grant McChesney <grantmc at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > This PC-on-a-stick really intrigues me.  I wonder if it will work as a
>> > frontend.  I'd love to replace my Revo frontends with something small
>> like
>> > this.
>> >
>> > Summary:The PC-on-a-stick will come pre-loaded with Windows 8.1 for
>> $149, or
>> > Linux for just $89, when it starts shipping in March.
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.zdnet.com/article/ces-2015-intel-introduces-compute-stick-with-atom-quad-core-cpu/
>>
>> I'm actually at CES and when I visited the Intel booth none of the
>> engineers could actually point me at actual hardware; many of them saw
>> the same announcement but couldn't tell me anything about it because
>> it just wasn't on the floor.
>>
>> I'll check again tomorrow.
>>
>
> These things seem to be generally available now..  Has anyone taken the
> plunge and set one up as a MythTV frontend?
>
> I'm wondering if this could displace my old Atom/Ion machine.   Does it
> have VAAPI support?  How does that compare with an Ion1 with VDPAU?
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