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

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 11/09/2010 02:17 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 11/09/2010 11:12 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>> Apple Mac Mini + Broadcom Crystal HD then. Latest flash player actually offloads to the crystalhd reasonably well, though its not yet 100% stable. Or Apple Mac Mini w/nVidia graphics running Mac OS X, where there's decode offload to the GPU.
>> Of course, with the software scaling and compositing in Flash, you're fixing the 5% problem and leaving the 95% problem with the CrystalHD.  :)
>>
>> That said, a modern Mac Mini with appropriately-chosen CPU and VDPAU-compatible NVIDIA GPU is a great frontend system.
>>
>> Yeah, you can *choose* to buy an under-spec'ed Mac Mini.  But you can /not/ choose to buy a sufficiently-spec'ed Atom-based system.
>>
>> Or, for those who don't want to pay Apple prices, there are other ways to get the same benefits as the Mac Mini for cheaper.
> Not if the benefits you're after are "silence" and "tiny footprint". I haven't seen anything else out there in a similar form-factor w/enough shaders to do advanced 2x deint *and* enough cpu to decode in software if need be, for any less than a Mac Mini. If such things do exist though, I want to know about them. :)

Yeah, the "other ways" will require a DIY approach.  I don't know of any 
existing off-the-shelf complete systems that are as good (or, for that 
matter, cheaper).

Mike