That NVidia Ion platform is uuber sweet! IWANNAIWANNAIWANNA!!!<br><br>Office/school PC system with superior graphics output, chubby client format, minimal desk space...<br><br>poked into an old thinkpad T21 case....<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Calvin Harrigan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charriglists@bellsouth.net">charriglists@bellsouth.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Richard Bronosky wrote:<br>
> ...Has a BE FE separation allowing you to velcro a FE to the back of<br>
> your TV. Now, if only the was support for HD decoding in the GPU!<br>
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> I put my MythTV into storage and am waiting for support for my HD<br>
> TVs... It's been 2.5 years...<br>
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> On 6/16/09, Calvin Harrigan <<a href="mailto:charriglists@bellsouth.net">charriglists@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Atlanta Geek wrote:<br>
>>> Changing the subject a bit. But does anyone find it ironic that as the<br>
>>> technology gets to the point where we can have all these neat flat panel<br>
>>> screens we still have to keep the furniture around for the little black<br>
>>> boxes.<br>
>>><br>
>>> The only people that can hang up a flat panel TV with no boxes are the<br>
>>> guys who only have Over The Air tv or watch analog only on their cable<br>
>>> network.<br>
>>><br>
>> <snip><br>
>> Or people with other solutions like mythtv that hides away nicely and<br>
>> only has an hdmi cable going to the tv through the wall. ;-)<br>
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</div>Take a look at:<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU</a><br>
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VPDAU support is in trunk, requires an nvidia 8xxx or 9xxx gpu. Decodes<br>
13.5 Mbps h264 hd 1080p (blue ray) with just 5% CPU on an athlon X2<br>
3800+. Similar results is had with mpeg2 streams. I've actually use a<br>
backport to .21 provided by Jean-Yves.<br>
Read up on it here: <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU</a><br>
The new holy grail of front ends are the ion based boards:<br>
<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/" target="_blank">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/</a><br>
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