Michael Haan wrote:
> I'm thinking about trying it, but I want to be reasonably sure it'll
> work before I start buying equipment. Any reason why I couldn't build
> myth with HW on this linux variant (I believe it derives from gentoo,
> which I've used before: http://www.epios.net
I have the SP13000 board and the unichrome-pro drivers, but I just
learned today (another thread) that I should have libviaXvMCPro.so.xx in
/etc/X11/XvMCconfig... I actually had libNVIDIA.so.xx....???
If you are going down the 'roll-your-own' route, check out
http://groundstate.ca/C3Myth where Austin Action explains how to do all
the unichrome bits under Mandriva... you will have to do similar things
with the unichrome sourcecode. And some of that is now obsolete with the
inclusion of stuff into Xorg...but what bits I am not sure!
This board plays DVD's very nicely and can expand a standard TV to full
screen with stutter artifacts. But I do not know if it can actually
handle the MPEG4 output of HDTV...It would be nice!
There is no doubt that it can handle the input side of an HD stream, so
it will do as a backend. The question is whether it will front as well.
Geoff
> On 11/18/05, *Bryan Halter* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:
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>>On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:33:34 +1300 (NZDT), Robin Gilks wrote:
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>>>>Is anyone aware whether the EPIA Nehemiah boards with the CLE266 MPEG2/4
>>>>decoders are capable of serving as a viable HDTV frontend, either now, or
>>>>in
>>>>the near future?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>With a CLE266 no, with a CN400 (e.g. SP13000) very likely yes. Only the
>>>CN400 has mpeg4 decode capability anyway (apparently).
>>>
>>>
>> Are you sure about that? And if so, using what software
>> drivers... I have an SP130000. I did not think that I could 'do'
>> HDTV with it. I do have an HD3000 card, but I was not intending
>> to attempt actual HDTV output to screen. Geoff R. Geoffrey
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>>If you're going to try it you would need the unichrome drivers. I was wondering about this myself and would love to hear an update onces someone tries it.
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I've already got a ready to go backend. In fact, it was a combo fe/be and it handled hd. Problem was, it ran so hot that even water cooling it wasn't enough (i'm just guessing about that. certainly fan-cooling was not enough but i've been experiencing intermittant lock-ups which, i now read, could just've been a myth thing) so i had to leave the case open. Needless to say, it was loud. So, when the mobo died yesterday i started think about making the fe/be split, but i need a machine that can handle FE hdtv duties *quietly* - hence the reason I'm thinking about this.
Can anyone out there with one of these machines try playing an hdtv clip and see if it works?
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