[mythtvnz] Intel X-26

[Tim Westbrook]

On 20 September 2013 09:13, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Tim Westbrook <iondiode at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 20 September 2013 07:19, Chris Robertson <chris at teamrobertson.co.nz>wrote:
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>>> I've been looking around for a cheap machine for my dad as a first intro
>>> to xbmc+mythtv. I have a RaspPi running openelec - amazing for such a tiny
>>> box - but the UI is a bit sluggish and more importantly, he wants to stream
>>> from premierleaguepass.com but the RaspPi can't do flash. Curse your
>>> lack of ARM support adobe!
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>>> I just noticed this blog post:
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>>> http://www.tgdaily.com/**hardware-features/73848-these-**
>>> mini-pcs-are-powered-by-intel-**celeron-chips<http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/73848-these-mini-pcs-are-powered-by-intel-celeron-chips>
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>>> Has anyone tried one of these? Even with the outrageous shipping it
>>> looks like a cheaper option than a NUC but still reasonable performance.
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>> I have not, but i did use an early celeron eeebox [1], and it had serious
>> problems decoding hd quality (720) h264 videos, like it was impossible to
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>> Nice thing about Rpi is the hw h264 decoder.
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>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_EeeBox_PC
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> I believe that the celeron in the X-26 is quite a different beast to the
> celeron in the EEEBox. Mine plays a 1080p rip of ST:Into Darkness just fine.
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> Nick,

You are correct of course. If I had RTFA I would have seen that these are
dual core, my eeebox was not. My wife's EEpc netbook,  dual core atom (
which is doing duty as one of our htpcs ) does fine with decodes.

Sounds like this would make a great xbmc/myth frontend.
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