[mythtvnz] Hardware Recommendations

Joel Wiramu Pauling joel at aenertia.net
Tue Oct 4 23:37:38 BST 2011


Has anyone had any experience with the cheap Arm based Android set top boxes
starting to come out? Some of them have hardware h264 decoding logic.
Presumably myth is in debian armel ports but have not had a platform to test
on.


Anyone?

On 5 October 2011 11:19, David Moore <dmoo1790 at ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> On 04/10/11 22:04, Rob Connolly wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm moving towards buiding a dedicated Myth box/home server system and
> > am looking for hardware recommendations. ...
> >
>
> The noisiest fans in my system are the case fans. They're only 80 mm and
> one runs constantly. Avoid small fans at all cost IMHO. I have a fanless
> video card and 120 mm fan on the power supply.
>
> I have 3 Western Digital drives: 500 MB, 1 TB and 2 TB. They're all
> Green drives and so far I've had no problems with them.
>
> My Asus motherboard has onboard video but it was no problem to disable
> it when I put in a better video card.
>
> Some people like to leave their systems on 24/7 but I like to save the
> planet :) so I have mine set up to power down after I log off and power
> up again when myth needs to record something.
>
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