Re: Mini itx in a HTPC?

[Ho Yin Ng <yahoogroups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul .. you are a star ..

Brilliant ... it is all the info I needed.

May I ask the MII 1200 are you using a fanless solution? or using the
standard heatsink with fan? is the 25db noise output noticeable?

Thanks,

Ho yin

At 15:00 30/06/2004, you wrote:
>The results are in. I ran the tests on two mini-itx machines while
playing
>mp3, wav, flac
>or wma. The wma file was encoded to 128kbps (is that high enough?).
>Slimp3s both had
>latest firmware (2.3) and the servers were running 5.2.0
>
>I also tested with a single slimp3, two independent slimp3s and
>synchronized slimp3s.
>However, the cpu utilization for two synchronized slimp3s always
appeared
>the same as a
>single slimp3, so isn't mentioned below.
>
>The machines I tested on were:
>(a) hush PC, EPIA 933MHz C3 Ezra, 512MB RAM, windows 2000
>(b) EPIA MII 12000 (ie 1.2GHz) with 512MB RAM, windows XP pro
>
>On both machines, mp3 took the least resources, then wav, then flac and
>wma the most.
>
>On the 933MHz machine, the wma took 40-45% cpu for one slimp3 and
65-70%
>for two
>On the 1.2GHz machine, the wma, flac and wav all took about 20% cpu for
>one slimp3. For
>two slimp3s, wma and flac took about 40% and and wav 30%. Two slimp3s
>playing mp3s on this
>machine took about 5% cpu - but this was around 15% on the 933.
>
>In all cases, I never noticed any problems with playback.
>
>The bottom line is that the newer machines handle this easily. If
anyone
>wants a higher
>bitrate wma file testing, please point me in the right direction
(offlist
>if required).
>
>Paul
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxx>
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:03 PM
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Mini itx in a HTPC?
>
>
> > > Can you try a loss less Flac as well?
> > Never heard of it before, but google is my friend :-)
> >
> > So I have:
> >     server - EPIA M12000 running windows XP, 512MB RAM
> >     source encoding: FLAC and WMA
> >     slimp3 - I have two, although one is still in its box :-(
I'll try
> it with both one
> > and two slimp3's running (on different sources)
> >
> > Any other requests?
> >
>
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