Hi, I currently have a VIA M-1000 installing with Debian, and recently installed the Freevo debian packages from the site. Freevo works fine to load up, but whenever I select shutdown, my resolution is put out of sync (the computer is hooked up to a tv with onboard video out). I haven't been able to find any work arounds for this. Second, I haven't been able to get sound working yet either. Anyone have a similar setup and wish to share the details of how they got it to work?
I am working on a friend's M10k and I am liking it a LOT.
About my setup:
Epia Nem. M10000
Debian unstable
Latest XFree86 CVS snapshot
CVS xine-lib, xine-ui
Latest mplayer pre release
kernel patches from http://members.iinet.net.au/~paulone/linux/VIA_CLE266_Epia_M_howto.html
NOTE: I am using the open source via driver for X, NOT the binary one from VIA.
X set to 720x480, 24 bit colour. Freevo to 720x480 as well. Freevo is serving as the window manager, startup using freevo -fs.
I am not using any framebuffer drivers, the system boots up into plain text console and I have a start script to flash up freevo, it comes up in X, when I exit freevo X shuts down because freevo is the window manager... NO resolution issues here, everything is great in that respect.
Also I have irexec setup to turn freevo on/off with the power button press on the remote. :)
For playing recorded shows (recorded by a pvr-250, 3.5 Mb bitrate, 720x480, DVD stream type - great quality for recorded tv) using mplayer with -vo xv which uses ~%45 cpu plus another ~10% by X. Also tried a SVCD and the cpu usage by X+mplayer went down to ~35%, tried a 1.4Mb divx avi and it only took up 25%.
The tv-out quality seems pretty good to me and this was all done on a crappy TV, I need to test on a better one.
So, once there is decent (open??) support for the CLE266 I expect the cpu usage to drop a fair bit. I hated messing around with the via supplied crap and they have these dumb packages tailored to a few specific distros. So I opted for the open source alternative and I am VERY pleased with the results. :)
-Rob
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