Are you aware that Myth trunk now supports the new (non-free) NVidia video API - VDPAU.
That means that an FE with a £30 fanless graphics card will do H264 HD with no CPU usage to speak of
That sounds cool, especially for you DVB-T folks.
Over here, MPEG2 rules the airwaves, and the fanless NVidia card I have doesn't seem to help with much at all -- most of the more useful decoding features fail to bind with the binary driver, so it ends up doing just about everything in software.
I guess the chipset must be too "primitive" or something.
So when I rebuild the software over the holidays (coming up), and replace it all with latest Myth SVN, I'm also ditching the NVidia card completely to save a few more watts.
I've got one of those nifty Intel DVI-D adapter cards (the mobo chipset has built-in Intel graphics, but no DVI output) that slips into the PCIe slot. Just a single chip and a few discretes on the card -- shouldn't generate any heat to speak of.
Cheers
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