Thanks Nicolas and Sebastian for your answers. I notice that is a polemic question (2 answers, 2 different opinions ;-) ) I have already build and VDR in a common PC compiling it from source code. I am arranged to spend time setting up my VDR if I obtain the thing I need taking the best advantage of my hw. I don't have a LCD monitor but in the future it's probably. I use debian but I think I don't need X. I want my VDR to see and record TV, play mpeg4 movies, dvd, mp3 and I will try to play with emulators like MAME, Xbox, etc. Do you think I need X? Is needed for software decoding? Can I use the mobo HW decoder to play dvd's and soft decoder to play mpeg4? Thanks again En/na Nicolas Huillard ha escrit: > 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 ;-) > -- Salutacions, Leo M?rquez [ Enginyeria del Software / Internet ] [ Calidae - www.calidae.com ] [ Himalaya Servers - www.himalayaservers.com ]
