Building / Buying a MythTV box

[jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Jarod Wilson)]

On Friday 20 March 2009 14:13:34 Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > Anyone want to offer
> > suggestions or share their success stories?
> 
> I've got a core 2 quad with 3 tuner cards and a 4x 1.5T drive array in
> my office in the basement that serves as my master backend and workstation.
> Dell Studio Hybrid for my frontend and slave backend, prior to that, used
> a Mac Mini for a frontend, but it didn't have enough kick for high-res
> h.264 playback. The new Mac Minis are rather lustful though... nVidia
> graphics that are supported by the new gpu-decoding-offload code in
> mythtv trunk...

Even better though, and what I'm holding out for to replace the hybrid:

An nVidia ion platform system -- low-power atom processor with nVidia
graphics that also support gpu-based mpeg2 & h.264 decoding.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org