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. 

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