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I was running a frontend and backend on an EPIA m10k for the
last 8 months or so. It was ok, a little slow and always a pain to compile,
transcode, get the h/w mpeg2 decoder working. I finally gave in the other day
and decided to move for an easier faster life. I shall be ebaying my old epia very soon I think. For �150 I got a nforce 2 aopen xcube, dvd 16x dual layer
writer and a sempron 2600, I used my old hard drive (120gb) and old mem (512).
200W power supply also so still no worries with leaving it on 24/7. The cube itself has onboard audio and geforce mx 4 etc..
After installing FC3 from scratch and and setting up ATRPMS and getting
mythtv-suite. A few configurations and a mysql source all is back to normal.
And so much faster and smoother than ever before. I did try using XVMC acceleration for displaying live tv,
but disliked the fact things were in B/W and also it seemed very sketching,
kinda streaking with white lines, so I turned that off. CPU usage without XvMc
is laughable anyhow so makes no odds. I must say im impressed with the dvd rip facility, wish you
could specify lower bit rates though. One thing I wish we could sort out, is burning files to dvd. I see mythburn and nuv2burn (or some similar name) made a
good start, but haven't got too far yet. Would be nice to see. Many thanx Tom The Information contained in this E-Mail and any subsequent correspondence
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