[mythtv-users] VIA EPIA EX for mythtv front+backend (newbie)

Herman Kuiper herman at frontier.nl
Fri May 30 10:54:24 UTC 2008


> My experience is completely different. I have an M10K running
> diskless, with the whiny cpu fan replaced by a heatsink and the case
> fan turned right down. To my ears it's silent. I've had Fedora 4, 6
> and 8 with mythtv up to 0.20 running flawlessly on it. 0.21 crashed
> after viewing recordings, so I've switched to minimyth, again without
> problems. I wouldn't want to use it for HD, and couldn't use it as a
> BE, but as a small, silent FE it works well.

Same here - two of them, one a Hush, the other one a no-name. No fans at 
all, no noise. My only minor gripe is that Myth seems to get more and more 
power hungry, and you need quite some RAM, and a not-too-graphic rich theme 
to have it run smoothly. Minimyth rocks!

	Herman

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