Who’d have thought?
So, last night I finally managed to get all 800Gb+ of video onto my windows 7 based media pc. The PC in question is an Acer Aspire Revo, an ION based net top. Turns out that while the ION is quite capable of playing full HD video, and even full HD gaming, the little 1.6GHz Atom CPU is completely incapable of the real time transcoding required for watching things over my network on my iPad. Very unhappy.
There are three solutions to this. One, move it all back again and stream it to the media pc from my MBP. Two, use the media pc for my tv, and stream video for my iPad via my MBP and use that to transcode. Three, transcode all my videos to h264 so no more transcoding is needed.
Three would be the ideal solution, but would take an enormous amount of time. And one and two both require leaving two machines on, which is rather wasteful. Sigh. I have a dilemma.
Who’d have thought ten years ago that a one thousand six hundred megahertz CPU would be under powered.
