[mythtv-users] Inexpensive, preassembled, VDPAU-friendly frontends

[Calvin Harrigan]

Allen Edwards wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Michael Lynch <lynchmv at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:44 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>>> This is my ~$200 wishlist in hopes of a few newegg gift cards for Christmas:
>>>>>
>>>>> Case and psu - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811154084
>>>>> Combo mobo/cpu (Atom 330 with pci slot) -
>>>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121359
>>>>> GeForce 8400 (fanless) -
>>>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187041
>>>>> Memory (2gb) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134192
>>>>>           
>>>> You do realize that the slot on the motherboard is pci and not pci-e?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> So is the video card, isn't it?
>>>       
>> Ya know, after I woke up this morning, I went over everything again
>> and it should all go together.  Motherboard has 1 PCI slot and the
>> card linked above is PCI (GeForce 8400 GS 256MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI HDCP
>> Ready).
>>
>> If I'm reading that wrong, someone please feel free to correct me, as
>> it's been ages since I actually had to deal with hardware...
>>
>> Also, I've left out the HDD on my list because I had a spare drive if
>> I needed it, and actually I wanted to try net booting it :)
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> I recall posts saying that pci was not fast enough to do HD video.  In
> reviewing the post
> http://mail.google.com/mail/#search/pci/11d723c9402b8274 it seems like
> the concern was having the capture card and the video card both PCI.
> I assume you are going to use a HDHR, which works great by the way, so
> you will not have that problem.
>
> Allen
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Isn't the USB controller still on the PCI bus?