[mythtv-users] Building Remote Frontend - Components

Richard Morton richard.e.morton at gmail.com
Sat Jan 9 22:23:51 UTC 2010


Yes, but it is overspecced, and probably noisier than it needs to be -
which is subjectively an irritant.

Most people seem to be going for single or dual core Atom-Ion systems
with SSD, USB-pen-drive or network booting such as this
http://www.mini-itx.com/reviews/zotac-ion/

with VPDAU this will do full 1080p at 20% CPU

I am playing back SD (UK DVB-T freeview) on an old Via SP13000 @ 20% CPU usage.
This is over a CAT5 100mb link.

Having tried running the frontend on my Core2 laptop to benchmark
frontend responsiveness it is very similar on both; so throwing more
powerful CPUs at remote frontends doesn't seem to make much of a
difference.



Thanks And Regards,

Richard Morton


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