[vdr] [OT] NVidia ION mini-ITX arriving

[Magnus Hörlin]

Nicolas Huillard wrote:
> Magnus Hörlin a écrit :
>   
>> Well, my first imressions of the ION platform (Acer Revo) are very good. 
>> It does the vdpau deinterlacing without problems and so far the video 
>> decoding has not exceeded 1% cpu load for ANY 1080p clip I've tried. 
>> This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't know 
>> why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board. For 
>> those interested it uses 34W from 220V with the hdd still attached. I 
>> don't know if it's using any power though, since I've disabled SATA in 
>> the bios because I boot it off the network. Anyone who knows how to open 
>> this wonderful little thing?
>>     
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> Knowing that my EPIA ML6000 draws 25W from the wall (no HDD at all) 
> while hardware-decoding MPEG2, using the same kind of power brick, I'd 
> say decoding 1080p with 34W is great !
> I guess the HDD will still spin, even with SATA disabled at the BIOS. 
> You could rip 2 more watts off by unpluging it.
>
> Openning it :
> http://hothardware.com/Articles/Acer-Aspire-Revo-SFF-NVIDIA-Ion-PC/?page=3
>
> Does digital sound come out of the box on HDMI only ? No SPDIF of some 
> kind ?
>
>   
Thanks a lot for the link. Will open it as soon as my daughter has 
finished watching "High school musical". aplay -l shows no sign of a 
digital output other than hdmi which is a bit odd. I thought there would 
be a header on the mb at least but I guess not. For the moment I'm happy 
with hdmi.
/Magnus H