With Myth you are either running the server in place of a client or you're running another PC as a client. Both solutions require a PC capable of decoding the streams you're sending to it. A decent spec CPU for HD unless you have a chipset of GPU capable of offloading the decode or assist. NVIDIA's ION platform has a lot of promise, but it's over-priced and all solutions with it in a small form factor are currently extremely costly, completely obliterating the promise it has as a viable extender platform earlier this year (it was easy to predict).
The most cost effective and highest performance will come from dedicated silicon with built-in decoders such as those from Sigma Designs. These Systems on a Chip can do pretty much everything you need for your TV-based video playback. SageTV and Sage's HD Theater (HD200) have been mentioned earlier in the thread. They're currently not only the best solution for video streaming, they're the only solution with an integrated PVR server. This is the direction MythTV has supposedly been moving in, but there's currently no stand-alone SoC (absolutely quiet) extenders for Myth. -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40689 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
