Goga777 wrote:
ПриветÑтвую, Magnus
how much does it ?
I couldn't wait for a mini-ITX so I ordered a http://www.nordichardware.com/news,9180.html last week. It's arriving tomorrow and it will be very interesting to see if it work as well as my 9400-based uATX does. /Magnus
Well, my first imressions of the ION platform (Acer Revo) are very good. It does the vdpau deinterlacing without problems and so far the video decoding has not exceeded 1% cpu load for ANY 1080p clip I've tried. This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't know why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board. For those interested it uses 34W from 220V with the hdd still attached. I don't know if it's using any power though, since I've disabled SATA in the bios because I boot it off the network. Anyone who knows how to open this wonderful little thing? /Magnus H
2009/5/16 Magnus Hörlin magnus@alefors.se:
Well, my first imressions of the ION platform (Acer Revo) are very good. It does the vdpau deinterlacing without problems and so far the video decoding has not exceeded 1% cpu load for ANY 1080p clip I've tried. This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't know why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board. For those interested it uses 34W from 220V with the hdd still attached. I don't know if it's using any power though, since I've disabled SATA in the bios because I boot it off the network.
With an N230 or 330 processor?
Torgeir Veimo wrote:
2009/5/16 Magnus Hörlin magnus@alefors.se:
Well, my first imressions of the ION platform (Acer Revo) are very good. It does the vdpau deinterlacing without problems and so far the video decoding has not exceeded 1% cpu load for ANY 1080p clip I've tried. This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't know why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board. For those interested it uses 34W from 220V with the hdd still attached. I don't know if it's using any power though, since I've disabled SATA in the bios because I boot it off the network.
With an N230 or 330 processor?
That's a 230 with 2GB RAM. Don't see any need for a 330 for this application.
On Sat, 16 May 2009 14:11:55 +0200, Magnus Hörlin magnus@alefors.se wrote:
Torgeir Veimo wrote:
2009/5/16 Magnus Hörlin magnus@alefors.se:
Well, my first imressions of the ION platform (Acer Revo) are very
good.
It does the vdpau deinterlacing without problems and so far the video decoding has not exceeded 1% cpu load for ANY 1080p clip I've tried. This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't
know
why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board.
For
those interested it uses 34W from 220V with the hdd still attached. I don't know if it's using any power though, since I've disabled SATA in the bios because I boot it off the network.
With an N230 or 330 processor?
That's a 230 with 2GB RAM. Don't see any need for a 330 for this application.
Bit off topic but which XBMC skin are you using?
scott wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 14:11:55 +0200, Magnus Hörlin magnus@alefors.se wrote:
Torgeir Veimo wrote:
2009/5/16 Magnus Hörlin magnus@alefors.se:
Well, my first imressions of the ION platform (Acer Revo) are very
good.
It does the vdpau deinterlacing without problems and so far the video decoding has not exceeded 1% cpu load for ANY 1080p clip I've tried. This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't
know
why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board.
For
those interested it uses 34W from 220V with the hdd still attached. I don't know if it's using any power though, since I've disabled SATA in the bios because I boot it off the network.
With an N230 or 330 processor?
That's a 230 with 2GB RAM. Don't see any need for a 330 for this application.
Bit off topic but which XBMC skin are you using?
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The default skin. Havn't changed anything in xbmc settings except enabled vdpau.
2009/5/16 Magnus Hörlin magnus@alefors.se:
With an N230 or 330 processor?
That's a 230 with 2GB RAM. Don't see any need for a 330 for this application.
How much ram does the GPU get allocated with 2GB ram overall? 256MB?
Torgeir Veimo wrote:
2009/5/16 Magnus Hörlin magnus@alefors.se:
With an N230 or 330 processor?
That's a 230 with 2GB RAM. Don't see any need for a 330 for this application.
How much ram does the GPU get allocated with 2GB ram overall? 256MB?
I allocated 512 MB in the bios but I'm not sure how much is actually used. Does anybody know how to see how much the gpu uses? /Magnus H
Magnus Hörlin a écrit :
Well, my first imressions of the ION platform (Acer Revo) are very good. It does the vdpau deinterlacing without problems and so far the video decoding has not exceeded 1% cpu load for ANY 1080p clip I've tried. This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't know why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board. For those interested it uses 34W from 220V with the hdd still attached. I don't know if it's using any power though, since I've disabled SATA in the bios because I boot it off the network. Anyone who knows how to open this wonderful little thing?
Thanks for the feedback.
Knowing that my EPIA ML6000 draws 25W from the wall (no HDD at all) while hardware-decoding MPEG2, using the same kind of power brick, I'd say decoding 1080p with 34W is great ! I guess the HDD will still spin, even with SATA disabled at the BIOS. You could rip 2 more watts off by unpluging it.
Openning it : http://hothardware.com/Articles/Acer-Aspire-Revo-SFF-NVIDIA-Ion-PC/?page=3
Does digital sound come out of the box on HDMI only ? No SPDIF of some kind ?
Nicolas Huillard wrote:
Magnus Hörlin a écrit :
Well, my first imressions of the ION platform (Acer Revo) are very good. It does the vdpau deinterlacing without problems and so far the video decoding has not exceeded 1% cpu load for ANY 1080p clip I've tried. This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't know why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board. For those interested it uses 34W from 220V with the hdd still attached. I don't know if it's using any power though, since I've disabled SATA in the bios because I boot it off the network. Anyone who knows how to open this wonderful little thing?
Thanks for the feedback.
Knowing that my EPIA ML6000 draws 25W from the wall (no HDD at all) while hardware-decoding MPEG2, using the same kind of power brick, I'd say decoding 1080p with 34W is great ! I guess the HDD will still spin, even with SATA disabled at the BIOS. You could rip 2 more watts off by unpluging it.
Openning it : http://hothardware.com/Articles/Acer-Aspire-Revo-SFF-NVIDIA-Ion-PC/?page=3
Does digital sound come out of the box on HDMI only ? No SPDIF of some kind ?
Thanks a lot for the link. Will open it as soon as my daughter has finished watching "High school musical". aplay -l shows no sign of a digital output other than hdmi which is a bit odd. I thought there would be a header on the mb at least but I guess not. For the moment I'm happy with hdmi. /Magnus H
Yes the Revo uses the HDMI port to route audio out to TV or a Surround amp.
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Nicolas Huillard nicolas@huillard.netwrote:
Magnus Hörlin a écrit :
Well, my first imressions of the ION platform (Acer Revo) are very good. It does the vdpau deinterlacing without problems and so far the video decoding has not exceeded 1% cpu load for ANY 1080p clip I've tried. This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't know why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board. For those interested it uses 34W from 220V with the hdd still attached. I don't know if it's using any power though, since I've disabled SATA in the bios because I boot it off the network. Anyone who knows how to open this wonderful little thing?
Thanks for the feedback.
Knowing that my EPIA ML6000 draws 25W from the wall (no HDD at all) while hardware-decoding MPEG2, using the same kind of power brick, I'd say decoding 1080p with 34W is great ! I guess the HDD will still spin, even with SATA disabled at the BIOS. You could rip 2 more watts off by unpluging it.
Openning it : http://hothardware.com/Articles/Acer-Aspire-Revo-SFF-NVIDIA-Ion-PC/?page=3
Does digital sound come out of the box on HDMI only ? No SPDIF of some kind ?
-- NH
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Well, my first imressions of the ION platform (Acer Revo) are very good. It does the vdpau deinterlacing without problems and so far the video decoding has not exceeded 1% cpu load for ANY 1080p clip I've tried. This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't know why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board. For those interested it uses 34W from 220V with the hdd still attached. I don't know if it's using any power though, since I've disabled SATA in the bios because I boot it off the network. Anyone who knows how to open this wonderful little thing?
thanks for your report.
but can you watch dvb-s2 h264 channels with some usb dvb-card ?
Goga
Goga777 wrote:
Well, my first imressions of the ION platform (Acer Revo) are very good. It does the vdpau deinterlacing without problems and so far the video decoding has not exceeded 1% cpu load for ANY 1080p clip I've tried. This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't know why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board. For those interested it uses 34W from 220V with the hdd still attached. I don't know if it's using any power though, since I've disabled SATA in the bios because I boot it off the network. Anyone who knows how to open this wonderful little thing?
thanks for your report.
but can you watch dvb-s2 h264 channels with some usb dvb-card ?
Goga
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Not sure about that. I have a vdr server in the attic with six pci-slots full of dvb-t and s2 cards and run xineliboutput over the network. Works like a charm with vdpau deinterlacing my 1080i channels. The only one that doesn't work perfectly yet is SVT HD with 720p50. /Magnus H
thanks again
which resolution and diagonal size has your TV set ?
Goga
Goga777 wrote:
thanks again
which resolution and diagonal size has your TV set ?
Goga
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Well, currently it's a 37" 1366x768 LG LCD which means vdpau has to work even harder, downscaling 1080p to 768p. I hope to change that for a 42" 1080p screen this summer since my mother needs a new tv...... /Magnus H
Magnus,
What kind of remote controller / IR receiver are you using? Does it have integrated receiver supporting lirc?
- Kimmo On 16 May 2009, at 13:55, Magnus Hörlin wrote:
Well, my first imressions of the ION platform (Acer Revo) are very good. It does the vdpau deinterlacing without problems and so far the video decoding has not exceeded 1% cpu load for ANY 1080p clip I've tried. This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't know why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board. For those interested it uses 34W from 220V with the hdd still attached. I don't know if it's using any power though, since I've disabled SATA in the bios because I boot it off the network. Anyone who knows how to open this wonderful little thing? /Magnus H
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Kimmo Taskinen wrote:
Magnus,
What kind of remote controller / IR receiver are you using? Does it have integrated receiver supporting lirc?
- Kimmo
On 16 May 2009, at 13:55, Magnus Hörlin wrote:
I use Microsoft's MCE remote (the only decent thing they ever produced) with this. /Magnus H
Thanks for the feedback on this hardware! There are many interested parties (myself included) so it's great to hear some real world experiences. Have you tried throwing any VC-1 at it yet?
Regards, Derek
VDR User wrote:
Thanks for the feedback on this hardware! There are many interested parties (myself included) so it's great to hear some real world experiences. Have you tried throwing any VC-1 at it yet?
Regards, Derek
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Sorry, I don't have any VC-1 content available. Can you point me to some links and I'll be happy to try some. /Magnus
Magnus Hörlin wrote:
Goga77
last week. It's arriving tomorrow and it will be very interesting to see if it work as well as my 9400-based uATX does. /Magnus
This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't know
why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board. For /Magnus H
Hello
I think to buy GA-E7AUM-DS2H NVIDIA GeForce 9400 motherboard. Can you share your experiences whit 9400 based mobo and VDPAU? (And rest your notes ofc ;-)) What you mean "GA-E7AUM-DS2H NVIDIA GeForce 9400...")?
Tommi
Tommi Lundell wrote:
Magnus Hörlin wrote:
Goga77
last week. It's arriving tomorrow and it will be very interesting to see if it work as well as my 9400-based uATX does. /Magnus
This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't know
why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board. For /Magnus H
Hello
I think to buy GA-E7AUM-DS2H NVIDIA GeForce 9400 motherboard. Can you share your experiences whit 9400 based mobo and VDPAU? (And rest your notes ofc ;-)) What you mean "GA-E7AUM-DS2H NVIDIA GeForce 9400...")?
Tommi
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Well, I've had that board since it came out and if I was you I'd wait for one of hopefully several Nvidia Ion boards coming out soon. For some reason I never managed to make the GA-card work as well as my Ion board which is just fantastic. This how the Revo looks mounted on the back of my LCD, together with a USB DVD player. HDD, WLAN card and top cover are removed since I don't need any of them. As you can see, the performance figures while playing "killa" in XBMC are quite impressive, don't you think? http://www.minhembio.com/magho Yes I know, I will tidy up the cable routing! But with only two (AC power and ethernet) cables running to the TV that's not a very difficult job. /Magnus H
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