[vdr] Re: Epia M2 + Budget-card installation

[Thomas Weber <tw@swe-weber.de>]

Rene Hertell schrieb:

> > A friend has a working EPIA MII + Gentoo with budget card and xine plugin.
> > AFAIK he has applied the kernel patch and he uses the work from the
> > unichrome team. The CPU usage stays as low as 15-25% with this setup.
> > We tried also to use the streamdev client plugin instead of the budget
> > card. This is also possible but a bit unstable.
> > Using xine and unichrome is, however, maybe not what you want. You would
> > need a X server + a Windowmanager (this isRatpoison in my case) instead
> > of DirectFB.
> >    
> Is your friend using X-server, or does he run xine without X (and gtk)?
>  
As sayed: its a X server + a Windowmanager.

> I tried to compile xine-plugin, but compiling the xine-lib failed in the end
> of the compiling-process (I'll post an link to the output when I'll back
> home)
>  
I'm using the xine plugin on other boxes as well. I had no problems to 
build it on Fedora Core 2, for example.
Maybe the actual error messages can tell me something.

> What goes to the unichrome-drivers, I'm not sure if I managed to get those
> drivers to load (where can that be checked?).. Somehow it seems to me that
> my setup fails to use the onboard mpeg2 decoder.. :(
>  
There is a mini howto at 
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=24184&group_id=102048


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Thomas Weber