[mythtv-users] Quiet cheap frontend for 1080p

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:02 AM, jk90090 <jk90090 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/8/12 11:38 PM, Brad Templeton wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 07:19:16AM -0600, Teruel deCampo MD wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 21:16 -0700, chris biddick wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have had good luck with a Zotac zbox ion d525.
>>
>>
>> I must had my trusty cube computer frontend fail after many years.
>> Probably
>> just the PS, but it's old (AGP only) so time for a replacement.   Anything
>> else besides the Zotac that people have tested on?
>>
>> I must admit I stopped using vdpau on the other systems.  Seemed to be a
>> hassle if you have the CPU to do it, though of course you run hotter using
>> the main CPU.  Can vdpau do h.264 now or still just mpeg2?  Of course my
>> OTA
>> recordings are mpeg2 but transcoded ones are 264.
>>
>> I assume that none of the other book size computers I see on sites like
>> newegg are enough to do 1080p?   The AMD E-450s, the Atoms (D525 or D2500)
>> with Intel GMAs?
>>
>> Or since I have a core 2 duo sitting around, and ram and etc. would I
>> be better with an inexpensive SFF barebones and a cheap vid card?  A lot
>> bigger, and more watts, but a lot more power for other functions.  There
>> seem
>> to be decent boxes under $100.
>
> VDPAU can handle h.264, VC-1, Mpeg1 & 2, WMV, and ASP (divx/xvid/mpeg4).

Actually a wrd of ewarning, divx/xvid suppoort depends on which
chipset you have. Details in the nvidia reademe.