In my setup - I am planning on using the M10000 as a front end only. My back end will be where I am going to have a PVR250 doing all my encoding. I am even going to do download the kernel over the network (Remote boot).
Any thoughts on how it will perform doing the following? Playback of encoded MPEG2 files living on a back end server Playback of encoded MPEG4 files living on a back end server Playback of MP3/OGG files on back end server Possibly play some MAME games Other basic myth function Later -Chris Christopher Pane Principal Engineer Vanteon 2851 Clover Street Pittsford NY 14534 Phone: (585)248-0510 ext 232 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: George Nassas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 10:59 AM To: Discussion about mythtv; Craig Hagerman Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Via M10000 On 20-Jun-05, at 4:03 AM, Craig Hagerman wrote: > What I am wondering is how the Epia performs at transcoding. I know > this can take up a lot of CPU power. How long does it take to (remove > commercials and)transcode an hour of video down to something smaller? > Can anyone recommend any other small form factor, relatively cool CPU > / motherboard for my project? My M10000 performs terribly at transcoding, at least 4:1. In other words, a 1 hour recording will take 4 hours to transcode. There were some posts recently about how the choice of mpeg decoder (ffmpeg vs libav) can make a huge difference in transcoding but I haven't rejigged my setup to compare. There are a few boards around with similar setups to the epia but don't have the cpu built in so you have the option of more horsepower there. The asus a7v400mx is one although I don't think it has built-in tv-out and I think gigabyte has one but I don't remember the model. - George
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