Hi
I've been building a new fanless VDR box. Would like to provide some feedback, and perhaps attract some comments and suggestions :)
Hardware: EPIA SP-1300 mounted in a low profile heatsink Serener GA-L01 case, 120G 2.5" laptop drive (plus NFS share to central VDR 'recorder'), 1G DDR400 RAM and a TT-2300-C FF card + CI/CAM
Software: Fedora Core 8 (2.6.23.9-85.fc8), vdr-1.5.12, plugins:mplayer/mp3, remote, vdr-xine, dvd, epgsearch
Comments: -Really quiet, which was the main purpose of this build. -would have liked to take advantage of the motherboard MPEG2/4 features but am still having problems with xvmc/xxmc with vdr-xine - keep getting kernel "vmalloc" ERRORS -no problems with vdr itself or the other plugins at this stage -Mplayer playing via "mpegpes" has to run with the "slow cpu" switch in mplayer.sh.conf - even then some 900x700 XVID .avi files need 85% cpu. So quality is not that flash -not sure if I can use motherboard MPEG4 acceleration with output on the TT-2300 FF composite video out to improve cpu/heat usage? -this combination of local VDR box in the lounge with remote 'recorder' isn't ideal - as all the timers are only available via the 'remote' menu
Cheers - and hope everyone had a great xmas!