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Holger Waechtler wrote:
| | ... | Modern fanless Mainboards like the VIA Epia boards in the Hush-box have | much more CPU power and also some MPEG decoder helper functionality | speeding up the DCT on the CPU die (or was it on the graphics chip?). | MythTV has some experimental support for this feature IIRC. | |
just my 2 cents, WRT a new STB (so not speaking about ricycling old HW!) with no moving part and cheap:
the EPIA-M:
~ http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_m_spec.jsp?motherboardId=81
has:
- - fanless CPU - - 1 PCI slot (for a budget card..) - - a CLE266 north bridge who supports MPEG2 HW decoding and actually there's an effort to reverse engineer the "binary module" from via:
~ http://www.ivor.it/cle266/ ~ http://crp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/MPEG/details.html ~ http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.cfm?catid=28&threadid=47219
her newer sister EPIA-TC has a CF slot and a 12V DC power onyl to make it a completely no-moving-part solution:
~ http://www.viavpsd.com/product/Download.jsp?motherboardId=201
disclaimer:
i'm not involved in any way in VIA and other party businesses! ;-)
bye
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