I think your puzzle might become easier to solve if you consider using PCIe SAT cards with dual tuners. That will ease the expansion slot requirements. I have just ordered a batch of Tevii S480 http://tevii.com/Products_S480_1.asp and I can let you know how they work once I receive them. Sorry, I cannot help with VDPAU etc. Regards Thomas On 03.11.2010 10:06, Theunis Potgieter wrote: > I'm considering to upgrade my current p3 system to a hdmi/optical > SPDIF and enough expansion slots to fill in dvb-s devices. I found > plenty of motherboards with combinations of 2x or 3x pci and 3x > pci-express. I can simply convert those pci-e to pci with an adapter > so that is not a problem. The unkown factor for me is, should I > consider a motherboard where the Core i3 (System on Chip) has got a > built in hdmi interface? Or would I be better off with nvidia's vdpau, > of consider to go ati/amd and what power usage are we looking at? > Should I then rely on vaapi support again? > > The end result should be a machine that is good for vdr as a frontend > and a backend, that is fast enough to be able to do transcoding on the > fly for those mobile devices that don't accept mpeg2 natively. (I have > been doing some transcoding using vlc + mediatomb on a core2 duo > 1.8GHz). I'm trying to get rid of the core2 duo and the p3 (currently > hosting the dvb-s cards) > > I don't see intel atom machines with at least 5+ expansion slots. > > You suggestions are most welcome. > > Thanks, > Theunis > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
