[mythtv-users] Mini-ITX Sized P4 Board with TV-Out and SPDIF Out!

[Micah Morton]

What is your point exactly?  This 170mmx170mm motherboard could perform
both encoding and decoding simultaneously whereas the EPIA can barely make
it as a front end only.

There are sacrifices for speed... POWER... either way you slice it, you
will burn the same amount of power.  If you have a desktop PC doing the
encoding, and an Epia doing the decoding, you are burning MORE...

Just seems 10x more viable for a home consumer who wants an all-in-one
solution.  Nobody wants to fiddle around with networking to get something
like this to work when they can have it all in one.. Hence TiVo's sucess.

And if you so desire to make it a front end only machine, it will be an
AWESOME front end.. however, it will burn more than the epia in power, it
will also do more.


--Micah Morton

PS. am i totally out of line?
> Agreed, it also consumes power just like any desktop PC though.
>
> VIA is around 20 watts, where garden variety x86 +/- 2 GHz is around 80
> watts.
>
>>
>> This board has the Chrontel CH7011 chipset and should be very much
>> more supported than the VIA tv-out.  Might not be up to par with
>> Conexant chipsets, but chrontel I believe is much more versatile than
>> the VIA.
>>
>> All Epias are VIA.. this board is NOT, by any standard, an Epia...
>>
>> --Micah
>>
>> > Could some comment as to the TVOUT status of this board.  I have
>> been very disappointed in this area with the disparity of support.
>> For example the Epia 800 has mediocre TVOUT support.  Magenta and
>> blue bars.
>> >
>> > The AGP ATI Radeon VE board I have seems to work well though.
>> >
>> > Can anyone comment on this board and other Epias?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> >>
>> >> I found this board a couple months ago and finally got my account
>> set up at the place that distributes them in the US.  I can now
>> sell these things cheap-o!! Here's the link
>> >>
>> >> http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/SBC/LV-670.HTM
>> >>
>> >> Contact me via email and let me know if you are interested in
>> getting a couple of these.
>> >>
>> >> I can sell them for 230bucks a pop.  Thats just enough to cover the
>> product and shipping on my end.  I make no money on this sale. As a
>> mythtv enthusiast, I would love to see some people use these things
>> and make a really awesome mythbox.  One cool difference is that
>> they have coaxial tv-out with simultaneous SPDIF, unlike the VIA,
>> where its a shared port that you switch with a jumper. Intel has
>> linux drivers online for their video (which I am unsure of as far
>> as tv-out support goes).
>> >>
>> >> Anyways, email me directly and let me know if you would like to get
>> one of these boards.
>> >>
>> >> I cannot make any guarantees whether or not they will work, but
>> they look fairly solid.. I'm going to get one for myself for sure.
>> >>
>> >> --Micah Morton
>> >> --micah at oregontech.net
>> >>
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