Le vendredi 04 mars 2005 ? 11:03 +0000, Laurence Abbott a ?crit : > How easy was it to get your Epia M1000 going with hardware MPEG > decoding? Is it as simple as: boot, start vdr with xine plugins, start X > sending out the S-video connector, start xine fullscreen? Not yet but we are almost there. You need latest x.org and xine. > How well does it cope with the OSD? I've tried the xine plugin on an > athlon 1000 and it seriously crawls when the OSD is displayed. The problem goes away with HW mpeg2 acceleration. The stream uses 10-15% CPU so there is plenty left for OSD > Any idea if any of the newer Epia boards would fare better? Although, > having had a quick look, the newer ones don't have parallel ports so > where would I attach my status LEDs? To on board header? Some have it some don't. The M 12000 is faster than the M 10000 doh =;-D > Has anyone tried running two DVB cards on one of these things with a > two-way PCI riser card? There are issues with double riser cards. From memory it is a BIOS problem and, well, VIA isn't well you see =:-D You will need a decent power supply. You will not be able to use a tiny case without ventilation = noise. Cheers Tony
