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
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