Ondrej Wisniewski a écrit : > With VDR getting ready for HD-TV it seems that today the MPEG4 decoding > can only be done on a high end processor or an external decoder card. > Many people are still waiting for a FF DVB-S2 card but it doesn't look > very promising at the moment. > > So I was wondering if it would be possible to use the on board video > decoder chips of the VIA EPIA boards like the VIA EPIA EX15000G > http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=450 > > This board mounts a CX700M2 chipset which features MPEG2/4 hardware > decoding. It has DVI and Y/Pb/Pr video output as well as analog and > SPDIF audio (coaxial and optical). So that's everything we need, isn't it. > > I know, currently the OpenChrome video driver doesn't support MPEG2/4 > video decoding for the CX700M2 and there are probably other things > missing from the software support side. But from what I see, this or a > similar motherboard in combination with a budget DVB-S2 card have all > the hardware features that are needed to have HD-TV. So we actually have > the proper hardware platform *today* for a quite a low budget. So if all > the efforts go into driver and application development for such a > platform, there is no need to wait for FF DVB-S2 cards. > > Or am I missing something here?
I'd also like to read some answers to that specific question. Is the EPIA EX the kind of hardware that could some day properly render 1920x1080 broadcasts ? -- NH _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
