[mythtv-users] Energy Efficient Front End

[Gerald Brandt]

----- "Yan Seiner" <yan at seiner.com> wrote: 
> 
> On Thu, March 26, 2009 8:52 am, Jarett Creason wrote: 
> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote: 
> >> 
> >> I have a car-puter that has a myth be/fe on it. It's not used for 
> >> recording at all - no tuners. 
> >> 
> >> It's an energy sucking hog. This is a problem since it kills the 
> >> batteries in short order. 
> >> 
> >> Is anyone using an energy efficient car-puter with myth? Mostly for 
> >> movies; HD would be nice but not necessary. The slowest, least energy 
> >> hungry CPU out there. An ARM box would be nice. 
> >> 
> >> --Yan 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > You could check out the fit-PC2 that is supposed to come out next 
> > month. It is small, it supposedly will play 1080p HD and has a 
> > reported power draw of 6W. 
> > 
> > http://fit-pc2.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page 
> > 
> > Power Consumption 
> > 
> > * 6W at low CPU load 
> > * <7W at 1080p H.264 playback 
> > * 8W at full CPU load 
> > * <1W at standby 
> > 
> > Looks pretty cool... but I have no first hand experience with it. 
> > 
> 
> 
> That looks very sweeeeeet! 
> 
> and at $299 it's a pretty strong competitor to a mini-ITX, which I've 
> always considered horribly overpriced... 
> 
> Thanks! 
> 

Will this thing do hardware decoded h.264 under Linux? I couldn't find an answer on the web site. 

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