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<blockquote data-quote="kellizer2" data-source="post: 138127" data-attributes="member: 27444">Please let me give you a background to the question. I would really like to have HDTV in the lounge but not have a dual core processor that is normally required to process the codec. Doing research, it seems that you are not going to get a slick, quiet HTPC that can also handle the H.264 codec. Also, your not going to be-able get/build a htpc system as slick as the MAC MINI, but going with a mac mini would eliminate the possibility of HDTV now, or in the future.So, I be racking my brain for alternatives, one is to offset the processing to the server - thus allowing for CPU efficient processing on the client. another could be to allow for a hardware implementation of the processing of the codec (<a href="http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070308_001806.html" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070308_001806.html</a>) - but this implementation if true, would never make it across to the windows platform, as Apple do not really condone the use of the windows platform of the mac platform let alone support proprietary hardware on the windows platform. I can't think of any workable alternatives that would give me the set-up described.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kellizer2, post: 138127, member: 27444"] Please let me give you a background to the question. I would really like to have HDTV in the lounge but not have a dual core processor that is normally required to process the codec. Doing research, it seems that you are not going to get a slick, quiet HTPC that can also handle the H.264 codec. Also, your not going to be-able get/build a htpc system as slick as the MAC MINI, but going with a mac mini would eliminate the possibility of HDTV now, or in the future. So, I be racking my brain for alternatives, one is to offset the processing to the server - thus allowing for CPU efficient processing on the client. another could be to allow for a hardware implementation of the processing of the codec ([url]http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070308_001806.html[/url]) - but this implementation if true, would never make it across to the windows platform, as Apple do not really condone the use of the windows platform of the mac platform let alone support proprietary hardware on the windows platform. I can't think of any workable alternatives that would give me the set-up described. [/QUOTE]

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