Laurence Abbott a écrit :
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 12:35 +0100, tony wrote:
Le vendredi 04 mars 2005 à 11:03 +0000, Laurence Abbott a écrit :
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).