[mythtv-users] H'ware playback, was:Myth on WD HDTV Media Player for $99

[Johnny]

> CPU power does help.  But the idea is to have a fanless, silent FE,
> not throw h/w at the problem.

Not to throw general purpose hardware at it (e.g. powerful CPUs or
GPUs), but throwing specialized hardware (like the specialized decoder
chips metioned previously) is what gets you a low power, silent, cheap
frontend.