Ondrej Wisniewski wrote:
This board mounts a CX700M2 chipset which features MPEG2/4 hardware decoding. It has DVI and Y/Pb/Pr video output as well as analog and SPDIF audio (coaxial and optical). So that's everything we need, isn't it.
Well, looks like the people who pointed out that this chip doesn't decode h.264 are right. Neither could I find any other decoder chip on the VIA web pages that would do that. So this is actually a "no go" for the EPIA boards for decoding HD-TV video. That means I was wrong and we really *don't* have the needed hardware *today*, not to mention Linux support.
Remains to be seen if VIA (or some other manufacturer) comes up with a small, low power consumption MB with h.264 hw decoding or if we see a FF DVB-S2 card before that. In the meantime there is no hurry, I'm happy with the current VDR :-)
Ondrej