[vdr] Re: vdr and via epia...

["martin north" <martin@chipsandpeas.com>]

I have just bought an EPIA-M6000. I am still building the system so i can't 
tell you what the results will be. But from what i understand: 
1. There is no open source driver for the MPEG2 decoder. So you are 
restricted to using the VIA Xine player and a binary driver on Redhat 8 
(maybe mandrake 8.2?). But I dont believe anyone has confirmed if the VIA 
xine player will work through the VDR XIne pluggin (i'll know in the next 
few days!) 
2. That aside, I believe the CPU will cope with MPEG2 software decoding. 
3. The CPU begins to struggle with MPEG4/Divx decoding, and there is no 
hardware decoding for this anyway. 
So if you are not going to be doing much MPEG4/Divx stuff - and you aim is 
VDR only - then the M6000 is a good, quiet board. 
If you want lots of Divx, go for the M9000 or M10000. 



Thomas Glomann writes: 
> On Friday 10 October 2003 08:27, Tapio Karinsalo wrote:
> > Hi 
> > I am planning to purchase Via Epia motherboard and using it with VDR. Do
> > you guys know which Epia is best for VDR? Is 533 MHz enough power for this
> > purpose? Or should it be more powerful processor? Am I right that with Via
> > Epia motherboard it is possible to get totally silent system? 
> > Regards
> > Tappi
> hi, 
> I'm also planning to buy one in order to get a totally silent system. I have 
> already bought a case with a fanless PSU (netzteil). Search at e-bay for :  
> Siemens Fujitsu JETSON. I once found a nice page, where a guy built a VDR out 
> of this box. It features a fanlass power supply and has also a decent 
> looking. An Epia board should fit perfectly into the case. The case itself 
> hasn't arrived yet so I can't tell you whether it really was a good choice 
> but I expect it to come tomrrow. I can keep you updated on that subject. 
> And 533 MHZ is certainly enough power unless you want MPEG4 playback via 
> mplayer. This is definately not possible. You might try the 
> mplayerclusterplugin instead. Currently I am running a VDR on a 200 Mhz 
> computer without any problems.  
> If you want to stay absolutely silent, then you should also consider using 
> nfsroot (no harddisks) 
> Tom 
>  
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