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? I start X using the startx command as a special-purpose user, then it uses it's .xinitrc that run xine with all needed options (that's a standalone STB, so no regular X on this). Softdevice is a better alternative : no need to run a display client + the vdr server : just launch vdr and you're done. No HW MPEG2 decoding, though. > 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. I configured the OSD as opaque. Even with HW decoding, the UI is not smooth when the OSD is blended. > 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 the keyboard headers on the mobo. I plan to do that but didn't yet. That means there is no real keyboard attached to the box, though. > All I need to do is think up a cunning idea for what to house the thing > in!! It took me a whole week-end to cram everything inside the CD case (after a whole bunch of design before that). -- NH
