[mythtv-users] Myth Front End hardware. DNLA, boxes, PCs, etc.

[Zuriel]

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From: Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Front End hardware.  DNLA, boxes, PCs, etc.
> 
> How about this as a FE device ?  (ION with nvidia, audio, Wifi, etc.)
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> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856119016
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> Does it have enough power to decode an H.264 stream ?
> 
> Thanks !

Looks like an Atom 330, which is a netbook model and not a desktop model I believe, as well as an Ion1 chipset/GPU.

High definition h264 video should work fine with VDPAU. Don't expect it to do a lot without hardware decoding.

As an original Ion rather than a 'next gen' Ion, you get VDPAU feature set B instead of feature set C. That means no hardware decoding of mpeg-4 part 2 (xvid) and it won't handle odd sized h264 video.

Wikipedia:

All feature set B hardware cannot decode H.264 for the following widths:
 769-784, 849-864, 929-944, 1009-1024, 1793-1808, 1873-1888, 1953-1968, 
2033-2048 pixels.