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
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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 ;-)