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Atom+ION+Linux = HTPC?
costi:
--- Quote from: vuzedome on July 05, 2010, 01:50:25 PM ---Just go download Thora's K-on!'s (first season) OP2.
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http://img704.imageshack.us/i/kon1080pionn330.jpg/
Board used: Zotac IONITX-F-E (which is practically the same as the Asus I want to buy, CPU and GPU-wise)
EDIT: sorry for the double post, my mistake. Can a mod merge this post and the previous one?
vuzedome:
What you wanna get is the video playback stats, MPC-HC , go to View then select statistics to enable.
halfelite:
Just a suggestion why not go for a media player device like a popcorn hour instead? I run a zotac zbox HD-ID11N and It will play a lot of stuff but be warned simple functions like file transfer are slow. And never ever ever update the bios it will brick the unit and Zotac customer support is the worst ever.
And for the record I run a popcorn hour for all my media player. The zbox is used as my main desktop now. I traded in my mammoth water cooled desktop that was using 285watts an hour to the zbox which uses around 28watts an hour.
costi:
--- Quote ---Just a suggestion why not go for a media player device like a popcorn hour instead?
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Because I want to use it as a download box and storage server, run OpenSSH on it and besides, from my experience with standalone players, there's always someting wrong with them in terms of capabilities and configuration, always.
The cost is about the same, so I prefer something that's completely configurable.
halfelite:
--- Quote from: costi on July 06, 2010, 07:58:53 PM ---
--- Quote ---Just a suggestion why not go for a media player device like a popcorn hour instead?
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Because I want to use it as a download box and storage server, run OpenSSH on it and besides, from my experience with standalone players, there's always someting wrong with them in terms of capabilities and configuration, always.
The cost is about the same, so I prefer something that's completely configurable.
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Both have there good points and weak points I guess. Although most media streaming box;s now have internal drives, usb drives and torrent clients. although they lack openssh. You will find the same capabilities and config problems on an htpc also. Unless you are running high end cpu's which you are not. Cuda is not the holy grail of playback it works sometimes but not always, MKV takes more overhead from the cpu then an mt2s. If you ever get into bit streaming of HD audio you will need something besides and htpc. Going with a low end nettop board is what makes your htpc build a lot more iffy because you are basing a large percentage of playback support on cuda.
I dont want to change your mind or anything just letting you know the hurdles you might encounter and the let downs you might see.
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