[mythtvnz] Ion Platform ... probably not enough for MythTV

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Robert (MythTV)
<mythtv at isolutions.co.nz> wrote:
> Here's an AnandTech review of the ION Platform which might be of interest
> ...
> http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3526
>
> From the results, anything less than a dual core Atom 330 would be
> pointless. Given that this would JUST handle Blu-ray playback, doing
> anything as a combined front-end / back-end, like comm-flagging, or
> transcoding would be quite the job for this platform, and in the end, it
> probably would not be entirely usable.
>
> It might still work, as a front-end only (for playback), but it would
> probably be at the bottom end of what is required or necessary.
>
> - Robert
>

I don't recall anyone promoting ion as a possible BE/FE combo. I have
seen many people propose it as a potential frontend.

Testing with atom boards and PCI nvidia cards have shown it to be well
capable as a general front end. I can't recall any specific bluray
tests that I have seen.

The test in anandtech seems to have been done under windows. purevideo
is a different technology to vdpau. vdpau offloads all decoding
operations to the GPU, purevideo splits between cpu and gpu.

How the anandtech test relates to a linux system acting as a myth
frontend is beyond me.