On Monday 14 Feb 2005 18:38, James Harrell wrote: > My understanding from the literature on the EPIA boards is > that this isn't really an MPEG decoder, but some form of > math co-processor that offloads some of the decoding from > the main processor. Please correct me if I'm wrong. > The CLE266 included in the "EPIA-M" series boards does more mpeg decoding than NVidia XvMC, but less than the full decoding DXR3. It does halfway between.
However.... > My goal here would be a low-cost, quiet (fanless) box using > minimal CPU. The EPIA 5000 is pretty cheap, just not sure if > I move to the software (hardware assisted) decoding that: > �a) the box would be able to handle this at 500 or 733 mhz - or - > �b) the box would overheat running the CPU full-tilt to > ��������do the "hardware assisted" decoding in a fanless box The 5000 doesn't include the CLE266 mpeg decoding. It has an Apollo PLE133 based chipset. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
