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Subject:    Re: [mythtv-users] Epia MII6K vs MII10K for a Frontend
From:       Adam Felson <a.f.6 () pobox ! com>
Date:       2004-12-12 16:34:06
Message-ID: 1102869247.5328.7.camel () linux
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The 600 has 3/10's the floating point performance.  That cpu at equal
clock speed has 1/2 the FP performance.

The 600 can play mpeg2 streams *if* you get the unichrome drivers
working.  It cannot play mpeg4 streams so if your backend has a dumb
capture card with software mpeg4 compression, you'll have to transcode
the mpeg4 files.

I went with the 10000 because it can play mpeg2 and mpeg4 without using
the unichrome drivers.

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 10:22 +0000, Phil Thompson wrote:
> I'm slowly deciding on the components to use for a Myth frontend system. I'm 
> looking at the Epia MII boards (PCI slot for the DVB-T tuner, probably a 
> Nova, and a PCMCIA slot for wireless). There will be other backends on the 
> network so this frontend will only have to handle one stream at a time - 
> whatever the user currently wants to watch.
> 
> My question is about the CPU. The CPU utilisation figures I've seen bandied 
> around for the 10K with the Unichrome drivers suggest that it has plenty of 
> spare capacity. Therefore, would a 6K also do the job? The advantage of the 
> 6K is that it is fanless. Silent operation is important - the box will 
> replace a silent Pace dual tuner PVR.
> 
> Thanks,
> Phil
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Adam Felson <a.f.6@pobox.com>



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