From mythtv-users Sun Dec 12 17:20:26 2004 From: Phil Thompson Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:20:26 +0000 To: mythtv-users Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Epia MII6K vs MII10K for a Frontend Message-Id: <200412121720.26226.phil () river-bank ! demon ! co ! uk> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=mythtv-users&m=110287251524867 Thanks for that. How noisy is the 10000? Can you slow the fan down? Phil On Sunday 12 December 2004 4:34 pm, Adam Felson wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users