Laurence Abbott a ?crit : > 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. I think it's vanilla. I got X from a non-official Debian repository, and Xine (libxine) from Darren Salt's Debian repository. > 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? For you in the UK, mini-itx.com is a good place. I recently found an online distributor in Paris (good for me). There is also linitx.com in the US... Prices are quite the same everywhere (taking change into account). > What do people normally do for a powersupply with these things? Use a > chunky 12 V supply with a DC-DC convertor? I changed the 55W DC-DC convertor / power block with a new 110W. The DC-DC fits directly in the ATX connector on the mobo (PW-200-M on http://www.mini-box.com/) and the power block is now outside the CD case (heat + size), whereas the previous 55W one shown on the pics was inside the case. The new block has a tiny fan which is temperature controled. I didn't ear it start yet. I hope it won't ever start... This setup is quite powerful and totally silent (that is : except for the extrator). -- NH
