[mythtv-users] mythtv box not powerful enough?

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Mon Jan 18 03:15:10 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> First up, no, there's no mythtv support for the crystal hd yet. On the
> TODO list, its just a long and busy list...
>
>> Actually the OP is from Australia (well his email address is), so I
>> would assume its mpeg2, not h264.
>>
>> I think this crystal HD card is going to turn a lot of older laptops
>> into frontends, provided they have minipci-e (note the 'e'). They'll
>> have to be wired, or find a usb/pccard wireless option, as most only
>> have one minipci-e slot.
>
> My ThinkPad T61 has two full-sized mini pci-e sockets and one
> half-sized socket, so its quite happily chugging along with both an
> 802.11n mini pci-e card and a crystalhd card, with room to spare.

I stand corrected!


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