Has anyone built a Via mini-ITX system? I found a retailer here. I was wondering if the Via Eden processor has enough juice to play/stream MP3's or record tv shows onto a hard disk.

Playing/streaming MP3s does not require much juice.
As for recording TV shows to disk.....that will depend on the picture size and endoder quality etc.

I built a FlexATX system with a VIA C3 700MHz proc. It was fast enough to burn a CD at 16x, play MP3s and browse the web with Windows 2000 all at the same time.

It only needs to look comparable or slightly better than a vcr recording for me. And I plan on recording at ntsc resolution, is that roughly 320x240? Via also has a C3 processor for that board, is that more powerful?

> I plan on recording at ntsc resolution, is that roughly 320x240?

That's half resolution, but most USB and cheap PCI TV cards can only manage that.

record tv shows onto a hard disk

To take the guesswork out of that, get a TV/video card with hardware encoder (e.g. the Miro DC10plus, which has a hardware MPEG2 encoder on it).

You can then re-encode MPEG2 to MPEG4 at your leisure.

Peter