On Saturday 12 Mar 2005 00:27, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Friday 11 March 2005 15:25, andrew burke wrote: > > > I've since moved the cable box to another machine, which has a PCI > > > FireWire card, and all is well again. > > > > This is plugged into a shuttle XPC machine's onboard firewire. I would > > not be surprised if that was part of the problem. > > > > That machine is pretty loud, so we had been considering switching to > > something quieter, like one of the Eden-based boxes with no fans. > > > > Has anyone tried mythtv with these boxes? > > Quite a few people are using assorted EPIA boxes, but I'm assuming you're > asking about the new ones with the Unichrome Pro CN400 graphics chips. Not > sure how many folks have used those. > Indeed CN400 support is in its infancy... however, I managed to get MPEG2 accel working on friday... even ran MythTV for a while, although the OSD doesn't work yet and the video stuttered a bit in mythtv, but worked fine in MPlayer.
> > Are they capable of handling the encoding/decoding? > > Of? HDTV recording requires no encoding, you're just writing mpeg2 to disk. > > > Ideally it would be capable of handling HDTV. > > I don't think anyone has tried decoding HDTV with one of the new EPIAs > w/the CN400 chipset. It'd definitely have to be done in hardware, there's > nowhere near enough cpu there. > Tried 1920x1080 HDTV, but it ran at 85% CPU and wrapped around the screen. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it
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