It should be possible I think/hope according things i read: http://hawley.homeip.net/recycled-machine-mythtv.html Running CPU: Pentium Celeron, 367 MHz and Hauppauge 350, hardware MPEG-2 enc/dec Performance Once I checked the "Use the PVR-350's TV out MPEG decoder" box, playback CPU utilization dropped to 5 percent. When recording and playing back it sets around 10 percent. --- So what power is needed if the main things are done by the built-in hardware-decoder of the linkplayer. From the specs at http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS5295862125.html
Sigma Designs is sampling a media processor chip for IPTV set-top boxes and high-definition DVD players. The SMP8634 supports Linux, and is claimed to be the first system-on-chip processor to support multi-stream decoding of any format, including up to two simultaneous high-definition streams, along with full-screen graphics. or at: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8570522277.html It is also offering an application stack that enables such devices to be used as low-cost PCs or notebooks costing less than $100. I tried an old 300MHz PentiumII with 64MB as frontend and it works beautifully with an Nvidia card at 800x600 with 80% CPU load Henk Schoneveld
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