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 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. > Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you > create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click > Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! 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