5 Dec
2007
5 Dec
'07
4:17 a.m.
On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Ken Restivo wrote:
[...]
Those boards usually have rather serious special hardware particularly
for that purpose, specifically because the CPUs aren't fast enough.
The 1.5+ GHz versions still have that, though they *might* actually
get away without it in theory; don't know... I have one of those
here, but I haven't tried to do any serious DSP or anything on it.
(It's the "integrated dashboard computer" for my sports/race car -
not a multimedia machine. :-)
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And for what
it's worth, you can get micro-ATX boards that take
Celerons and Athlons. I'd stay away from that Via stuff myself if
I were doing anything other than a web surfing terminal.
I'd guess that anything capable of DVD and MP4 video recording and
playback would be plenty good for Linux Audio. In other words, if it
can run MythTV, why couldn't it run 64studio instead?