The Nehemiah M10000 has been reported to handle decoding quite well especially with mplayer. I haven't had a whole lot of time to play with mine. On the other hand, the Shuttle SS51G is well below $200 now so building a slightly more powerful system is going cost you probably not more than another $100. Shuttle advantage: more flexible component choice and growth capability. Via Mini-ITX: Lower power consumption, ability to integrate a tiny box that makes quite a bit less noise.
Brought to you by someone who has both ;) Mr O. --- Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Barrett wrote: > > 3. How do you (subjectively) weigh the benefits of a > mini-itx system for a > > home entertainment PC, versus a mini-P4? Obviously, the P4 > sucks more power > > and can have far more processing power -- and can also be > made nearly as > > quiet. The mobo/cpu combo's I'm looking at cost about the > same... I'm just > > looking for the variety of people's opinions here, offer > whatever you care > > to. > > Video comes in many formats. I doubt a VIA CPU can handle > realtime > decompression of most of those formats. And future codecs > will be > more compute intensive. If you're building a single-purpose > box that > only uses MPEG compression, and you can get the hardware MPEG > decoder > to fly, the VIA boards might be suitable. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
