On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Mika Laitio <lam...@pilppa.org> wrote:
> >> I have myself thinked about the possibility of running vdr/xineliboutput > >> client on low end systems that just have usb 2.0 but not any graphic > >> cards or free pci slots available. > >> > >> Has anybody experiences from the "usb vga" or "usb dvi" graphic card > >> adapters like these? > > > > I think the answer is here: > > "Sewell claims that these USB-driven monitors have the same quality as > > standard DVI monitors at displays of* up to 20-inches*" > > And what about all the GPU power? Someone has to handle MPEG decoding in > > hardware. > > > > As I see it, if you want low power silent box in your living room you'll > > have to keep a server with cards/USBs somewhere in your basement. If I > had a > > basement, that's exactly that I would do :) > > Well, at the moment I have amd X2 4850 cpu on my server and one of the > client is about 10 year old Pentium III 733 mhz with 10 mb network card > and and integrated intel graphich card. This client user vdr-xineliboutput > to 20" VGA monitor and works very well with SD channels. > > I have also tested streaming from VDR to Nokia N810 internet tablet. > In that test I used the Streamdev plugin on server and mplayer on Nokia > N810. (I have not tested xineliboutput with N810 because xine related libs > seems to be hard to find for it and I did not had time by myself to start > building everything for that...) > > So it indicates that the client do not neccessary need to have so much > power on client unless the USB graphich card is very different beast from > the resource eating standpoint. > The life is going toward high definition. My E6600 can hardly handle that with CPU decoding. By low power silent box I mean an Atom based set-top box with integrated video chip - short term it's probably nVidia, but I think Intel will join that club pretty soon. > > Mika > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@linuxtv.org > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr >
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