[mythtv-users] Is the Acer Revo still the best frontend?

[jedi]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:48:24PM -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 11/8/2010 21:25, Ajay Sharma wrote:
> >Sorry for yet another "best" frontend thread.  Just wondering if the
> >Acer Aspire Revo 1600 is still an awesome frontend or has it been
> >surpassed by the later model or something else?
> 
> As with all ION systems, the Revo 1600 is an _adequate_ frontend,
> provided all your playback needs can be handled by VDPAU and the
> nVidia chip.  If you need playback of some content with options not
> supported by it, or a codec not supported by it, or malformed
> bitstreams it cannot handle, or something like Flash, it will fall
> flat on its face.
> 
> For most content recorded by MythTV, it will work fine, but it is
> still preferred to have enough CPU power to decode in software if
> need be.

...which for h264 tends to be a lot. Flash doubly so.

That is why everyone likes ION kit so much. It eliminates much of
the need to have really beefy box and all of the size, cooling and 
noise complications that come from that.

Stuff other than h264 tends to be a lot less problematic.