I bought an Epia 800 a week ago. I have freevo and mythtv running on it. The 933 is just an up-clocked version of the 800.
At DVD bit rate MPEG, the processor has no idle CPUs (and requires drop frame to keep up). Lower bit rate stuff run at about 80% - 90% CPU. I have basic rate streams streaming from my TiVo and playing on this box fine. I later learned that the FPU runs at 1/2 the the processor rate and also heard that the 1 GHZ board due out in April will have the FPU running at full CPU rate. I'll have to note, that the nice thing about the Epia is that at idle it only draws 12 watts (with a compact flash hard drive). Hopefully the Epia 1 GHz will be able to pack more of a punch and still offer the same power savings. HTH > > I'm currently working on a VIA EPIA MX board in a case I found through > > www.mini-itx.com and have found the type of silent PC you're talking about. > > Be careful when you are picking cases some of them have low-profile PCI > > slots that make it hard to fit a TV card in to. I ended up going with a ATI > > TV/Wonder VE since had a small enough profile to fit in the case I'm using. > > The VIA motherboard has a 933 Mhz, support for 133Mhz SDRAM, SVideo and RCA > > Composite out which makes it perfect for just this type of project. The > > newer boards will have a 1Ghz processor on them and uses the faster memory. > > Did you run some benchmarks on the system? I know 933 Mhz CPU f and > 133Mhz fsb f sound like plenty, but IIRC you cannot just put in an Intel > or AMD CPU but need to use an Eden or C3 processor. And all I heard from > then was they perform badly on integer and floating point operations - > which I think have a major influence on video de and enconding. I am no > expert, but from what I heard even the brand new faster processor (the > 1GHz one) might not be up to the task of compressing TV to mpeg > realtime. > > I would be _more_ than happy to stand corrected though. So if you can > _please_ prove me wrong (; > > > If you can't find the right looking case look at the projects page at > > www.mini-itx.com to see what some folks have done. Gives a whole new meaning > > to hiding a computer. > > nice link, thanks! > > regards, > Andreas > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! > Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. > Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. > www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
