Hi Stephan, well I am not sure when I will start using HD content. Not now, but maybe later. This ION is really gorgeous! I need to have this! :)
Kind regards Cornelius Stephen Rowles schrieb: >> Hello List, >> >> I want to setup a new freevo box. I want to make it small, flat and >> silent. I got a case with a passiv DC/DC PSU. >> I will use the box mainly for watching AVIs and listening to music. >> >> At the moment I am using the matrox g450 on my old CRT TV. But I want to >> use a default LCD Display in future. I am booting the box via network, >> so there is no harddisk (making noise and heat) in it. >> >> So I am looking for a board that is passively cooled, that has a onboard >> graphics card and that is capable of doing the above things. >> >> Is a ViaC7 or an Atom 230 OK? >> Would a Via Chrome9 or and Intel GMA950 be sufficient? >> Do you have any experiences here? >> >> Kind regards >> Cornelius > > You mention wanting to use an LCD in the future, I assume that means you > will want HD playback at some point in the future? If so I would recommend > that you use an external graphics card, or at least have the ability to > use one, there are some very cheap nvidia cards that have no fans and will > allow playback of HD content even with a very slow processor. They MythTV > wiki has a good list of hardware testing with HD playback and the new > nvidia VDPAU api: > > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU#User_results > > That would seem to indicate that an Atom 330 is fine, and given the CPU > usage an Atom 230 would probably be OK too. > > Personally I would not go with Via mini-boards they seem overpriced > compared with the Atom boards and in my experience it is a paid getting > everything working properly on them, I used to have an SP13000 which I > never got working 100% things like suspend etc. never worked correctly and > getting reliable playback of even mpeg2 SD content was a pain. > > By comparison I now have an Athlon LE-1000 with nvidia graphics card that > was really easy to set up and is massively faster than my old machine and > quieter too as it has large fans not the anoying 40mm one my old via > mini-itx machine had! > > If your small case has no room for an external graphics card later, when > you want to use HD / LCD, then I would probably try and hold fire and wait > to see what happens with the Nvidia ION platform. That is supposed to be > based around the Atom 330 but with a built in nvidia GPU which is capable > of HD playback. Hopefully the ION will also support the linux vpdau api > which will make it a very small and quiet self contained machine capable > of HD: > > http://hothardware.com/Articles/NVIDIAs-Ion-Small-FormFactor-PC-Platform-/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > > > -- > Diese Nachricht wurde auf Viren und andere gefährliche Inhalte untersucht > > -- Diese Nachricht wurde auf Viren und andere gefährliche Inhalte untersucht ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
