[mythtvnz] DTT testing - Wellington

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Criggie <criggie at criggie.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Steven Ellis wrote:
>  > On Sun, April 27, 2008 11:03 pm, Douglas Pearless wrote:
>  >> OK, Time to upgrade then, perhaps a Q6600, 2GB of RAM?
>  >> Cheers Douglas
>  >> Steven Ellis wrote:
>  >
>  > Yeah.. Lost of CPU.. 1Gb Ram is a start.. HD loves CPU and RAM until we
>  > can get H.264 accel like Windows.
>
>  Well the good news is a Q6600 CPU is under $400 now, and some systems
>  are specced with one for not much more than $1000.
>
>  eg: Acer Veriton M460 Quad Core Q6600, 2GB ram, 160GB sata HDD, XP Pro
>  3Y Warranty - Mini tower
>
>  Add some drives to that and it'd make a nice backend.  Internal 1TB
>  sata drives are also below $400 now.

But why would you need that grunt on a back end? Surely the front end
is what does the video and audio decoding?