[TriLUG] MythTV Frontend hardware

[Ken Mink]

I have two frontends that are Acer Aspire Revos AR1600-U910H. These are 
little all-in-one boxes with an Atom 230 and NVidia ION. Doing 1080p, 
the cpu is at 5%. Mythtv using VDPAU works great on them. Unfortunately, 
they are out of production. I recently bought a third frontend. It's a 
Zotac ZBOX HD-ID11. It comes without a HD and RAM. Once populated, the 
box works as well as the Revos.

All three boxes have a SD card slot, but I've not tried to boot from it. 
They don't have optical drives. The Zotac is a little louder than the 
Revos. The Revos are nearly silent.

Ken

On 2/21/11 11:55 AM, Bill Farrow wrote:
> While we are talking about MythTV remotes, I am planning to build a
> new frontend.  If the mpeg and h264 decode can be offloaded to the
> graphics chip, that would be fantastic.
>
> My requirements are 1080p HD video playback over HDMI.  I'm looking
> for a small form factor case, with quiet or silent cooling.  Having a
> DVD drive bay is optional.
>
> This doesn't need a HDD, I will either PXE boot or use a USB
> flashdrive or compact flash card.
>
> Has anyone run a MythTV frontend using an all-in-one montherboard with
> the Intel Atom and Nvidia ION graphics chipset ?
>
> Bill