[vdr] Re: VDR box based on EPIA-M board and Cubid case

[Wolfgang Fritz <wolfgang.fritz@gmx.net>]

Marcel Pommer wrote:
> On Monday 10 February 2003 18:34, Wolfgang Fritz wrote:
>
> > I am following the VIA arena Linux forum (www.viaarena.com)  for the
> > past weeks. The present state is that you can use the binary via video
> > drivers  with some versions of Redhat and Mandrake kernels and even get
> > them to load with other kernels with some manual work. But up to know
> > there is no information how to use the MPEG hardware, so you dont't get
> > a performance gain by using the via video drivers.
> >
> > That's a pity. I think an EPIA M6000 board with a budget DVB card would
> > be a nice platform for multimedia/VDR etc. applications.
> >
> > Wolfgang
>
> hi,
>
> i'm new to this list, so please forgive me if i'm missing some basics..
>
> imho, getting the mpeg decoder in the cle266 to work should be the primary 
> goal for this project (i'm planning on a m9000 w/dvb for digitv/dvd/divx/mp3 
> etc playback). afaik via supports this hardware with its linux drivers 
> (there's even an Xv library in the driver package), but no known player can 
> use it. but, modifying a player (xine/mplayer) should be the smallest 
> problem.
As I understand the current discussion in the via forums, there is no 
information about the programming interface to the via drivers. I dont't 
know much about X programming, so I can only believe what I read there.

> correct me if i'm wrong, but would it not be the best thing to use a cheap dvb 
> card without an mpeg decoder, so the cle266 can do the decoding for both the 
> dvb stream and the dvd? dvd playback would not be a challenge for the 
> processor, just divx could drive the board to its limits, and only if divx 
> becomes more cpu-expensive in the future.
I would really like to use such a configuration. The EPIA M boards 
basically have all the hardware needed (S-video out with MPEG decoder, 6 
channel sound)

> what i don't know is: can you take a dvb card with an mpeg decoder, have it 
> decode a stream that comes from a dvd drive and send it to its own 
> svideo-out, so an epia 800 would be sufficient?
mplayer has a driver for DVB boards. During my first tests with my DVB 
card I installed it on my desktop PC (667 MHz P3) and could watch DVD 
without problems and with very low CPU usage. I have not tested it with 
the EPIA board (no DVD drive attached)

Wolfgang

> regards,
>
> --
> Marcel Pommer
> marsellus@gmx.net



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