[mythtv-users] Nehemiah Performance for MPEG-4 Frontend

[Eric Thelin]

I am thinking of buying a EPIA M10000 board for use as a frontend only.
I have seen many posts with issues related to the performance of these
boards but most are related to playing MPEG-2 files generated by a
PVR-250.  I have both a PVR-250 and a bttv based card so I will have
files in both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.  I am assuming that the hardware
decoder will only be useful for the MPEG-2 files.  And most of the posts
I have seen with concerns about speed start with the question "Are you
using the proprietary video drivers?"  And as I understand it these
accelerated drivers also only help for the MPEG-2 format.  So my
question is do these boards have enough processing power to make a good
frontend for all myth encoding formats?  I would love to get one of
these boards and put it in a tiny case and really take advantage of the
frontend/backend nature of mythtv.  But I don't want to buy one if
others already know it won't do what I am looking for.


Eric