Re: [PLUG] Building a MythTV setup

["Mag Gam" <magawake@gmail.com>]

Fortunately, your NAS will have Gigabit Ethernet to host your HD content. 
In my opinion you are still cutting close using gig E, in the future if you may have more clients accessing the NAS, therefore you will run into bandwidth and I/O disk contention issues, resulting in performance degradation.

I think to serve HD on demand without any compression, fiber is the way to go. Especially, if you want to take advantage of  HiFi loseless audio codecs such as DTS-HD.

Just my 2 cents :-)

On 7/27/07, Austin Murphy <austin.murphy@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/26/07, TuskenTower <tuskentower@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Frontend:
>   Based around the VIA EPIA EX10000EG Mini-ITX Mainboard which has
> Component video out (the board has a dedicated HDTV processing chip)
> and coax/optical S/PDIF out.  I'm not sure if this board will work
> with Linux though.

> VIA EPIA EX10000EG Mini-ITX Mainboard
> http://www.logicsupply.com/products/ex10000eg

To get HDTV output from this system or any other fanless system, you
will need to have full XvMC support.  There's no way around it.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC

It appears that this graphics chip is not supported yet.  The
OpenChrome project is the place where the development is happening.

http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=HardwareCaveats

The "HDTV processing chip" is only used to drive the analog component
video outputs.  If you use the DVI output, you don't need it.  That's
good because Linux/X doesn't support it yet either.

Check out the VIA SP8000E.  It's fanless and has the CN400 graphics
chip, so it works with XvMC and can display the full 1920x1080 of
HDTV.   Whether the 800MHz cpu can keep up is another story...  It
would require you to have a VGA input on your HDTV/monitor.

http://www.logicsupply.com/products/sp8000e
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=261

The SP13000G is similar, but has a 1.3GHz cpu and a fan.

Austin
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