[mythtv-users] Building Remote Frontend - Components
Jongi
jongitech at gmail.com
Sat Jan 16 16:58:23 UTC 2010
On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 22:23 +0000, Richard Morton wrote:
> 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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Thanks to all for the input.
I'm now thinking of going :
Zotac Ion INTEL Atom N330
1GB DDR2
M350 Universal Mini-ITX Enclosure
Rgds
Jongi
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