Watch the video in HQ if you know what’s good for you.
I’m in the middle of reviewing VIA’s latest barebones system, the Artigo A2000. Essentially a tiny PC in a tiny box like other barebones setups, the Artigo sports the latest Nano-ITX mainboard and uses a sort of netbook-level processor, the VIA 1.5GHz C7-D. It’s a simple little device to set up, although getting the RAM in was a bit of a chore. Everything else works like a charm; I’ll have video in a day or two showing it boot up the latest Ubuntu and hopefully working as my own little media server.
I highly highly doubt that it can, but have you checked to see if it can spit out 1080p video via VLC media player? Something that size would be the ultimate plug-in for my television if I could get 1080p out of it. If you go to test it out, please try that. Lol, or send it to me for free and I’ll test it for you.
I’ll see about that, it’s definitely one of the things I planned on testing. But for 1080p I’ve found that Media Player Classic and CoreAVC (or just ffdshow) is the fastest.
Nice. It has hardware HD video decoding so in theoory it should be able to play 1080p pitty they didn’t give it DVI/HDMI out.
Im more interested in it running SqueezeCenter to power SqueezeBox Duets and some form of DLNA complient server to supply HD video to a PS3. Would be interesting to see if it could transcose on the fly.
Would be worth sticking in a nice fast compact flash for the OS and leave the disk(s) for storage. Hardware RAID would have been niuce but software RAID 1 is an option hard to know what kind of overhead it would put on the CPU though.