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PostPosted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:57 pm 
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I found this article (it's a little dated being from 2009) that reviews motherboards for Linux HTPC purposes. One of the criteria is VDPAU compatibility, which means Nvidia 8XXX or better. The article is not specific to MythTV / LinHES (Arch) / Debian.

http://www.linuxtech.net/features/best_linux_htpc_motherboards.html

If you have any experience with any of these motherboards, I would be interested in confirming Tier 1 compatibility. Especially the ZOTAC mobo with builtin wifi.

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I have the atom version of that zotac (older IONITX-A-D) w/ VDPAU and it rocks even with the energy efficient Atom 330. The board can do 1080p no problems under Arch w/ latest nvidia drivers.

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@graysky, what video chipset is your ZOTAC using to render HD via VDPAU? I understand that the NVDIA ION chipset supports 1080 HD: I am wondering if LinHES is able to leverage this capability.

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It is. As a matter of fact the ION next generation core is the same GT218 as my GeForce 210. The original ION worked too.


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I have used it through XBMC and it's fine. Also with mplayer. If LH has the up-to-date versions of both, then yes.

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 5:41 pm 
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I just built a new box running 6.04 using a ASUS AT5IONT-I. Worked completely out-of-the-box with the exception of having to update alsa for audio out over HDMI.

No problems with GPU or CPU performance, these dual core atoms seems quite good.


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@harveythedog: can you confirm that VDPAU worked with the ASUS ASUS AT5IONT-I? If you could post it's kill-a-watt reading, that would be really useful.
Thanks.

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@gatorback, I can confirm VDPAU works great (even HW acc. for Xvid!),plays what passes for digital HDTV here, plays blu-ray rips: all no problem. Mplayer works too with VDPAU if you have the correct settings in it's config file.

Unfortunately I can't give you a power use reading since I built it for (and sent it to) my brother, who lives in Perth, the other side of the country. :shock: The crappy little 200W power supply used barely even got warm under load, even after I slowed it's fan down (noisy).
I've read an idling low watt i3 will use less, but it's so easy to use one of these things with the "right" integrated GPU etc......

Having just 2 sata plugs, is the only thing that might be annoying.


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