[mythtvnz] Recommendations to replace dying Zotac ION board

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 21:13:32 +1200, you wrote:

>
>>> A busy day googling has come up with the following:
>>>
>>> ASRock AM1H-ITX motherboard
>>> 2x2G DDR3-1600 DIMM (cheaper than a single 4G)
>>> AMD 5350 CPU (which I assume comes with a cooler)
>>>
>>> So far it looks like change out of $300 and its all available here in NZ
>>> :)
>>>
>>> Just got to work out how to install (assuming I've found the correct
>>> driver) the AMD Catalyst graphics driver under the Gentoo chroot that I
>>> nfs mount for my PXE booted frontends.
>>>
>>> I get to reuse the case, picoPSU (although the m/b can be run from a 19v
>>> DC laptop brick) and the DVD drive and IR remote.
>>>
>>
>> $300 you can get an ASUS Chromebox, or something similar!
>
>I must be having a Sunday today because I can't see the connection between
>ChromeOS and mythtv nor can I find out from the Asus web site what CPU/GPU
>is inside the box and whether it can boot to anything other than ChromeOS.
>
>MythTV for me is MUCH more than TV - its News, Internet Radio, Picture
>gallery, videos as well as being able to skip commercials!
>
>I'm using my $120 quad core 7" tablet at the moment, stuff from the Sky
>box is fine as are the SD channels but 1, 2 & 3 have no audio (not too
>surprising!)
>
>Cheers

The audio problem with 1, 2 and 3 is likely because they have both
AC-3 and AAC audio and probably default to AC-3 - you need to find an
option to play the AAC audio track instead, or a way to install an
AC-3 codec.