On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 21:23 +0100, Carsten Koch wrote: ...
I was thinking along the same lines and I have just bought an ION board.
The main board comes with a CPU and with GeForce 9400 graphics, so that will be cheaper than the sum of a normal board + CPU + GeForce 9400 graphics.
OK, i finally found the time to complete a VDR PC based on the ION board.
The good news are:
+ 1080p plays back smoothly with xine/vdpau with very low CPU usage. + sound over HDMI works. + the streamdev-client plugin works - even with HD channels. + the xine plugin works fine - also with HD channels and HD recordings. I had to tweak a few config items.
The not-so-good news are:
+ The fan is a bit loud and so far I have not found a silent replacement fan. + I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot) system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE 11.2) performs unbearably slow, so I was forced to install a hard disk.
So, as it turns out, I do not need a DVB card in the PC (the server has 2 DVB-S cards and one DVB card). If I keep it that way, I really do not need the PCI slot, so I could use one of these passively cooled main boards http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a467665.html http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a439268.html
I currently use this (actively cooled) main board: http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a455388.html
Using a passively cooled main board would solve the fan noise problem.
Carsten.