Re: [SLUG] MythTV hardware advice sought

[John Clarke <johnc+slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:34:57PM +1100, Jake Anderson wrote:

Hi Jake,

> Many audio amps that have hdmi ports don't actually decode the audio on  
> the hdmi channel, just something to be wary of.

Thanks, but the HDMI is for the TV, and it does support audio over
HDMI.  I'll be using S/PDIF for audio to the amp.

>> Too much CPU is barely enough :-)
>>   
> heh, If your going to do transcoding that's pretty true, again quad core  
> will get you the performace for the price and thermal more than faster  
> dual cores ;->

True, but even with a dual core it's going to be the most powerful
computer in the house :-)

> BTW the shintaro can be recovered from having a bowl of stroganoff  
> dumped into it (If your interested).

Each to his own.  I'd rather each my dinner than pour it onto my
keyboard.


Cheers,

John
-- 
>> Some of us only count in octal.
> So how come there was a PDP8 ?
Dunno, but it thinks it's a PDP-10.
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