If we're starting to talk about media players then Popcorn Hour can be used as VDR client - http://smart-home-blog.com/archives/1344
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Theunis Potgieter < theunis.potgieter@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/11/2009, Michael Stepanov michael@stepanoff.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Paul Menzel paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 03.11.2009, 09:49 +0200 schrieb Michael Stepanov:
IMHO nVidia Ion is much better option.
Did you try both options or is this just your point of view from
reading
the specs?
Especially for HDTV.
As far as I know the Beagle Board is supposed to play 720p without any problems. See for example [1]. The NVIDIA ION is supposed to do 1080p with VDPAU, but I think I do not need it yet.
- The Beagle Board should use less power.
- More people run and test x86 hardware.
• Both use proprietary drivers.
Agree with you. But 720p on the Beagle Board is a hack while nVidia Ion
is
reality ;) In any case this is just my opinion. You can find easily case,
MB
with different options such external PSU, PCI extension or ready made
HTPC
based on nVidia Ion. Regarding the power consumption. I don't think that
the
difference between Ion and Beagle Board is extremely big. More efficient
way
to reduce energy consumption is replace all kitchen appliances to energy save ones, use thermostat to control temperature, switch off unnecessary electrical devices and use energy saving lamps :)
Thanks,
Paul
What about the Xstreamer? www.xstreamer.net 100 EUR, sounds like a good deal, now only a proper implementation of UPnP plugin for such a device?
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