[clue-tech] Everex mini PC

[Brian Gibson]

Wireless bridge may be the better way to go anyway
since you can swap out G for N when ready.  The
processor may struggle on HD content greater than 720P
though.  I think you need a minimum 2GHz dual core
processor to handle 1080P content.  The lack of
hardware video acceleration is a major stumbling block
for providing a cheap, compact, fanless Linux-based
HTPC right now.


Speaking of HTPCs, has anyone on the list installed
Myth on their PS3 yet?  That would make for a great
topic.  Unlike XBMC, the PS3 has the potential to
playback MPEG4/H264 content.  Sony apparently locks
the user out of directly accessing the video hardware
(so no HW acceleration there as well), but access is
available to all 6 SPUs.  So each cell can be
dedicated to a specific decoding task.  I think the
development group already off-loaded color decoding to
one of the SPUs.  (I believe XBMC is planning on
having MPEG4/H264 support in their Linux port.)

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythTV_on_Playstation3
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0C8QN3Hux4g
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7MxFbLVNr2w


--- "Michael J. Hammel" <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 19:56 +0000,
> dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
> > This might be interesting to some people looking
> for a small machine.
> > 
> > http://insanityville.com/journal.php?sxEntryID=3
> 
> Pretty cool.  No MPEG hw decoding, but it's got a
> superior relative of
> my Intel 915GM video on my Acer Laptop, and runs at
> a higher CPU speed
> with Dual Core (my laptop just has a Pentium M). 
> Since my laptop has no
> problem decoding video streams from MythTV, I'd say
> this would make a
> reasonable front end.  Probably costs a lot less
> than the components I
> bought to build my own (though building it was a
> little more fun).
> Audio out is kind of limited.  I wonder if Linux
> supports USB audio
> hardware?
> 
> No expansion slot that I can see so I guess a
> wireless front end would
> have to be done with a wireless bridge.
> -- 
> Michael J. Hammel                                   
> Principal Software Engineer
> mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                          
> http://graphics-muse.org
>
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