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DarrenJ

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#147201 12-Jun-2014 11:42
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Hi. 
I've been trying to figure out a new motherboard/processor combo to upgrade my media centre/PVR.
Really open to recommendation or a starting point on brand/chipset/graphics.

Currently use NextPVR and I have a dual Hauppauge DVB-T tuner.
Local storage for recordings, but any other videos are stored on the network.

My unit currently has a 
Asus E35M1-M Motherboard with AMD Hudson M1 Processor.  4Gb ram.  Works a treat for playback and recording Freeview, and playing any avi / mkv, etc I have, but now I'm thinking it would be great to upgrade it and have it cope with transcoding as well.

It's a fanless board which is great, but my case does have a PSU fan, so not totally silent - which doesn't bother me too much.

Any ideas appreciated :)

Cheers
DJ



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davidcole
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  #1064000 12-Jun-2014 12:37
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I've got an A6 AMD APU in my PVR...successfully handles transcoding of DVB-T recordings for Roku/Apple TV and IOS devices (the iphone probably needing the most transcoding...the rest probably only require remuxing).

This is transcoding via plex - which uses CPU not GPU based encoding.





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