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Atom+ION+Linux = HTPC?
costi:
Yup, I am. The mobo has everything, including a PSU. so I just add memory (2x1GB), a HDD (1.5 TB) and a case. And an OS, of course, Asus Express Gate is way too limited.
I read the netbook thread - some useful info, tho not really anything I didn't know. Still, MPC setting might be handy.
Mcgreag:
I have a HTPC with that hardware except I went with a ready built ASRock ION 330. Infact I got two now, one at home and one for the anime club.
But I run windows 7 on both so I can't really help you with linux and XBMC.
What I can say is that if you want a good anime library feature then XBMC will not cut it, at least if it's anywhere close to the windows version. You will need Mediaportal with the My Anime2 plugin and it's windows only. If it's for general movies and non anime tv-series then it will probably do just fine.
costi:
What does Mediaportal+MyAnime2 have that XBMC doesn't?
I'll probably have a mix of both on the HDD.
fohfoh:
Is there not an older version of XP available for use just in case? Dual booting might be fun. AFAIK, your video card might not be extremely useful in comparison to a proper processor. You might get some extra performance vs DVDs or something, but maybe not 1080p files. At least that's what I recall reading.
costi:
You recall wrong ;) ION, which is basically a GeForce 9400, has full hardware decoding of MPEG2, MPEG4, h264 and VC-1 (and probably others, but these are the most important). This is not a crappy Intel GPU, but a DXVA- and CUDA-capable one. During a BD movie playback CPU use is around 20%.
Dual booting is pointless - the HTPC will not have a monitor, keyboard or mouse of its own, it will just be hooked up to the TV and operated via the included remote. Torrents will be managed via a web interface from my main machine, and if I need to access is directly, I'll use VNC.
XP might be fine (I don't need 64 bit anyways) so if the Linux approach doesn't work I'll use that. But if I'm going to buy the OS, I might as well go with Win7.
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