Dave Graham wrote:
Looks good!
I'm getting the M10000 with a Casetronics C137
I'm coupling this with Hauppage's WinPVR-350
Haven't made my decision about distro's yet (and since I suck at all things Linux, I'll be spending a LOT of time on here).
Cheers,
dave
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Sijben Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 1:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
I got my EPIA-M mostly working with freevo. See my site http://www.xs4all.nl/~octavo/ps2 for details. I am using a recent version of the VIA drivers and they work well with Xv.
I need to spend some more time getting everything completely configured in freevo (and get rid of a memory leak).
Paul
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
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