Intel ATOM 330 Dual-Core CPU experience with XBMC for Linux - perfect 720p playback

vikjon0 Wrote:CrashX (or anyone),



Is then the conclusion that I need to add a PCI Addon card to play 1080p on this board?

I am considering to use this board since I want to try the atom platform and this is pretty much the only board available in Sweden. I can't find any with NVIDIA® ION.

As an alternative I am looking at the Asrock ION 330 but I prefer to build something myself.

Yes this is true, you can play 1080 content fine using PCI addon on linux. Davilla has already done it.

CrashX Wrote:Intel D945GCLF2 - Chipset fan is a bit noisy

I mount 51R or 56R resistor in red wire chipset fan and noise is low, but temerature mode don't now. However in other motherboard this chipset have passive radiator. On D945GCLF2 fan use also blow processor radiator and ICH7. Lower rotation, I think, is enough if the case cooling is normal (I have inwin BM639).

dizzey Wrote:It would be interesting to se the results of this patch FFMpeg-mt on the dualcore atom.

It wont go in to official builds of xbmc until its get integrated in to official ffmpeg, so please dont ask about that. but it would be nice to know how big diffrence it would make on a slower cpu.

I try to apply this patch at the last SVN but i have 2 or 3 error when i type :

patch -p0 < xbmc_ffmpeg_mt.patch

then when i try to make install xbmc retur with an error about "xbmc.bin not found"

the patch is valid for the last svn??and for jaunty?

Greg Rowe Wrote:Based mostly on comments in this thread I ordered a machine that will be a diskless XBMC frontend.

APEX MI-100BK
Intel BOXD945GCLF2D
PNY VCG84512SPEB
Kingston 2GB

The PNY card fits in the system quite easily. If however you had a hard drive mounted in the side of the case you might have trouble. My system is diskless so it works out fine for me.

I take it 120mm fan mounted on the side is fine with pny videocard ?

I run the Intel board ATOM 330, with a 256 MB Sparkle Geforece 8400
and it runs 1080p perfectly with a 5-10% cpu use.

The only negative thing about the board is u need an add on card to make use of digital sound output (Toslink/Spdif...)

I haven tried an add on card though. Maybe some one can comment on that.

menno Wrote:I run the Intel board ATOM 330, with a 256 MB Sparkle Geforece 8400
and it runs 1080p perfectly with a 5-10% cpu use.

The only negative thing about the board is u need an add on card to make use of digital sound output (Toslink/Spdif...)

I haven tried an add on card though. Maybe some one can comment on that.

If you are running the D945GCLF2 (and possibly the D945GCLF2D), it does include
a S/PDIF out header on the motherboard. You can search eBay for the proper
cable/adapter/jacks (search "Intel SPDIF"). Or, if you do not need optical out and can
can live with coax, you can do what I did and just wire up the header to an RCA jack
and plug that into your receiver (look at the manual for the appropriate pin-outs).

or here the DIY version:

http://projects.loetaffe.de/index.php?op...&Itemid=12

I am currently using latest XBMC build with Confluence and it works fine.

CrashX:
Are you still running XBMC on this setup, or have anything changed since you first posted your setup ?
Ubuntu version, XBMC, Hardware etc.

The reason that I ask, is because I just got a leftover test Intel Atom 330, and I was wondering if it would be worth transforming it into something useful.

Thanks
LowJack

I am running the Openelec build of XBMC on an atom 230, and it is pretty much flawless at 1080p.

There are a lot of people here running the Atom 330.. and I don't recall hearing any complaints.