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Asus EEEBox B202 not so good with MPEG2

Well I plumped for the EEEBox B202 and overall I’m quite happy with it.
Seems to render streamed Divx movies quite happily received over an 802.11G wireless link.

One problem I do have with it is the lack of MPEG2 Hardware decoder in the graphics chipset.
I have a Hauppauge WinTV Nova T USB2 DVB-T receiver for receiving broadcasts here in the UK and have had to find a softare MPEG2 CODEC to decode the received broadcasts. It seems the chipset is not up to rendering stream very well (low frame rate) on my Bravia flatscreen.

I might have to wait for the higher specification EEEBox B204, B206 or B208 when they are released in the UK.

Asus EEEBox B208 looks tempting

Asus seems to have removed it from their website but Google cache works wonders:

Take a look here

Better hardwere video decoding a newer dual core Intel Atom processor and some sort of built in UPS

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