> What about using the system as a frontend-only (i.e., using the onboard > video as the output video device)? Do good drivers exist for these > video devices? > > I noticed that there's an EPIA MII-series board that uses: > Integrated VIA Unichrome AGP graphics w/MPEG-2 Accelerator > > Unfortunately, I don't know enough about video hardware to know how the > MPEG-2 accelerator is accessed and used. Would a Myth frontend take > advantage of this? If so, would one just set it up as a "normal" video > card, and the mpeg acceleration will kick in when mpeg is being played, > and ignored otherwise?
Boards such as the EPIA M and MII series the CLE266 chipset. The Open Source Unichrome drivers support the CLE266 chipset. Using these drivers, MythTV, Xine and MPlayer can take advantage of the MPEG2 hardware acceleration. > What about some of the other EPIA boards, such as the "V" series video > boards (it lists only "Integrated AGP 4X Graphics" as its video > "card"). Is it well supported? You want a board with the CLE266 chipset. Otherwise, you will not have the MPEG2 hardware acceleration. > Also, I'm curious what the minimum and recommended EPIA CPU > configuration would be for a frontend-only system. I don't think I > understand how these VIA CPUs map power-wise to Pentimum and similar CPUs. I use an EPIA ME6000 to play back MythTV recorded NTSC programs without any problems. I use the diskless MythTV frontend distribution located at <http://www.linpvr.org>. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
