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On 04/03/11 23:36, Raymond Wagner wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 3/3/2011 09:50,<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jason@wkrp.com">jason@wkrp.com</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">My dedicated front end is a big old full tower box running MythBuntu
and I'm just tired of it's size. I've read a bit about the Nvida ION
and it sounds like the way to go. I just don't want to fall into
buying the wrong thing and having a mess on my hands. I'd like a
recomendation on either what motherboard to buy or one of the
barebones setup. I'll probably use just a regular hard drive in it or
maybe NFS boot.
I use the front end solely for a front end - no encoding / other
work. No HD video yet but having that as an option would be ideal. I
do play various encoded videos on it H.264 mostly some divx (TV shows
I've converted over the years).
I just need to be pointed in the right direction with something that
has had a good success rate.
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Check out...http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Choosing_Frontend_Hardware
Note that while most of the responses in here tend to be centered around
the ION platform, there are several more of us who are a bit jaded of
hardware decoding. VDPAU is great when it works, and it works most of
the time, however being an ASIC, it is limited to certain tasks. Some
codecs cannot be used at all. Some settings for supported codecs will
not work. Stream errors may cause problems. It's always preferable to
have a worthwhile CPU to fall back on should you need it.
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I came across this Ion system that comes with a Celeron CPU instead
of an Atom:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.zotac.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=100083">http://www.zotac.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=100083</a><br>
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Having said that, I'm not sure how much of a set up from an Atom
that <a
href="http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42779&processor=SU2300&spec-codes=SLGSB,SLGYW">celeron</a>
is.<br>
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Any thoughts?<br>
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thanks,<br>
Alex<br>
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Alex Tomlins
Email/Jabber: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:alex@tomlins.org.uk">alex@tomlins.org.uk</a>
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