On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 12:35 +0100, tony wrote: > 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. Got both of them already: vanilla or do they need lots of patching to get it to work with acceleration? I looked into this a while back but I think that was before Via open-sourced their driver. > > 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 Excellent... > > 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 :-P I was meaning more the other series such as the ME, MII, PD, etc. Is mini-itx.com a good place to buy these things from? > > 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. I didn't think it would be as easy as I was hoping. I'll look into it... What do people normally do for a powersupply with these things? Use a chunky 12 V supply with a DC-DC convertor? Whatever I use, it has to be quieter than my current setup! Cheers, Laz
