[vdr] Re: VDR box based on EPIA-M board and Cubid case

[Marcel Pommer <marsellus@gmx.net>]

On Monday 10 February 2003 18:34, Wolfgang Fritz wrote:
> I am following the VIA arena Linux forum (www.viaarena.com)  for the
> past weeks. The present state is that you can use the binary via video
> drivers  with some versions of Redhat and Mandrake kernels and even get
> them to load with other kernels with some manual work. But up to know
> there is no information how to use the MPEG hardware, so you dont't get
> a performance gain by using the via video drivers.
>
> That's a pity. I think an EPIA M6000 board with a budget DVB card would
> be a nice platform for multimedia/VDR etc. applications.
>
> Wolfgang

hi,

i'm new to this list, so please forgive me if i'm missing some basics..

imho, getting the mpeg decoder in the cle266 to work should be the primary 
goal for this project (i'm planning on a m9000 w/dvb for digitv/dvd/divx/mp3 
etc playback). afaik via supports this hardware with its linux drivers 
(there's even an Xv library in the driver package), but no known player can 
use it. but, modifying a player (xine/mplayer) should be the smallest 
problem.

correct me if i'm wrong, but would it not be the best thing to use a cheap dvb 
card without an mpeg decoder, so the cle266 can do the decoding for both the 
dvb stream and the dvd? dvd playback would not be a challenge for the 
processor, just divx could drive the board to its limits, and only if divx 
becomes more cpu-expensive in the future.

what i don't know is: can you take a dvb card with an mpeg decoder, have it 
decode a stream that comes from a dvd drive and send it to its own 
svideo-out, so an epia 800 would be sufficient?

regards,

--
Marcel Pommer
marsellus@gmx.net



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