I've been using epia M for quite a while with no problems. I had to add a line to the mplayer command to resample at 48000hz, but other than that its been excellent.
David On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 14:38, Rob Shortt wrote: > Hi, > > Dave Graham wrote: > > Does anyone have Via's EPIA-M working with freevo? I starting to put > > I have an epia-m 10k as well, but it isn't in a system yet. However, I > have set up two itentical Freevo systems with this board and they a > working really well. Their owners are quite pleased with them and I > must say the first one I built put a huge smile on my face. > > > together a project system for an article and will be using the EPIA-M > > 10000 (CLE266 northbridge; Nehemiah 1ghz processor) along with a Hauppage > > PVR-350. > > Nice! Which will you be using for the tv-out, the PVR-350 or the epia's > onboard stuff? The systems I built are using a PVR-250 to I am using > the epia's tv-out and CLE266. These machines also have a 120 Gb 8 Mb > buffer western digital drive and LG dvd-rom, the cases are VIA sereniti > 2000. > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > No problem at all, don't be afraid to ask questions. :) > > Ok, here goes... > > The most important thing regrding the epias is how you configure your > tv-out / video / display. Right now I beleive you have the choice of > using: plain framebuffer, directfb, VIA closed source X driver, XFree86 > open source X driver. > > -plain framebuffer driver: VIA released a fb driver, I'm not sure how > good it is. I don't know if there's an open source alternative here but > either way I think you will find features missing here. > > -directfb: Directfb does some things very good, one of them is tv-out. > Getting this to work could tke a bit of messing around but the quality > may be great. A major drawback to using directfb is that not a lot of > applications support is as an output method. > > -VIA X driver: This is the closed source driver released by VIA. They > release it in a package tailored for RedHat based systems and there are > binary kernel modules build against specific kernels. This is a pain in > the ass if you roll your own kernel or don't use RedHat. The advantage > to this driver is that it supports some of the mpeg2 decoding > capabilities of the CLE266. A disadvantage to this driver is that its > Xv support sucks / is broken. > > -XFree86 X driver: This is the open source driver and the one I chose. > I am using a recent CVS snapshot. This driver doesn't support the > mpeg decoding functions of the CLE266 like the VIA driver does but its > Xv support is pretty good. Many applications support using Xv as an > output method. > > I am pleased with the performance of the open source X driver for the > epia. I am running Debian Sid (unstable), self patched & built kernel, > and XFree86 CVS snapshot. I am using both mplayer and xine (using xv > video output methods of each) and the playback of everything from divx > to dvd is just fine. I am running X with a resolution of 720x480 with > overscan. > > If you would like more details on my setup just let me know and I will > provide you with links to any guides I followed or kernel patches for > the epia that I used. > > -Rob > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. > Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it > help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help > YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
