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?
I start X using the startx command as a special-purpose user, then it uses it's .xinitrc that run xine with all needed options (that's a standalone STB, so no regular X on this). Softdevice is a better alternative : no need to run a display client + the vdr server : just launch vdr and you're done. No HW MPEG2 decoding, though.
How well does it cope with the OSD? I've tried the xine plugin on an athlon 1000 and it seriously crawls when the OSD is displayed.
I configured the OSD as opaque. Even with HW decoding, the UI is not smooth when the OSD is blended.
Any idea if any of the newer Epia boards would fare better? Although, having had a quick look, the newer ones don't have parallel ports so where would I attach my status LEDs?
To the keyboard headers on the mobo. I plan to do that but didn't yet. That means there is no real keyboard attached to the box, though.
All I need to do is think up a cunning idea for what to house the thing in!!
It took me a whole week-end to cram everything inside the CD case (after a whole bunch of design before that).