Sebastian a ?crit : > Leo M?rquez schrieb: > >>Hi! >>I have an EPIA M motherboard and a Nexus-s FF DVB-s card. >>What kind of VDR/plugins implementation do you recommend to me? > > The Epia will be too slow to play MPEG4 I bet. So you don't have to > bother with the MPlayer-Plugin. But you can have anything else, like > DVD, VCD, Image, MP3 etc. EPIA *might* be too slow to transcode MPEG4 to MPEG1/2 for the Nexus (that's how the mplayer-plugin work). It won't be too slow for direct MPEGS4 decoding using a sogftware decoder and direct output through the VGA card (see the softplay plugin used with softdevice, or the xine-player script used with vdr-xine). This can influence your decision. >>What mpeg2 hardware decoder you recommend to use? The nexus mpeg2 >>decoder included in the dvb-s pci card or the mpeg2 decoder included in >>the CLE266 chipset? > > Definitely the Nexus's mpeg2 decoder. Advice definitely differ ! (see my previous post) >>Can I turn the FF card and use a cheaper budget card with the CLE266 hw >>mpeg decoder with the same quality? > > Possible, but hard to set up. Don't bother with it in the beginning. DON'T! One thing we agree upon : software decoding is hard to setup. Out-of-the-box VDR is definitely based on FF-card. On the other hand, software decoding has really matured since a year. Decide if you can spend enough time to setup software decoding, and be rewarded for you hard work, or just plug-and-play and have no fun ;-) -- NH
