On 6/22/06, Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I'm looking for is a similar box that is fast enough to do video, and can output to either a computer monitor and/or s-video. I've been thinking about what it would take to do that, and do it right, and it does look like a larger project than the PCI card version. I've been thinking about starting a requirements doc for such a box. A significant problem is that the feature list quickly explodes to the point that it is a full blown computer. Which means expense and noise.
Heh... you're not going to do H.264 without a full-blown computer. Theoretically, a hardware-accelerator could do the job on a slow machine, there just aren't any 100% hardware H.264 decoders yet (probably never will be... general purpose CPUs tend to catch-up). You _can_ do ffmpeg or xvid style MPEG4 with a Via mini-itx board and specific graphics drivers. You could also do MPEG2 with something like the MediaMVP (http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_mediamvp.html) for which there exists a replacement firmware which utilizes MythTV (http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main). --tim _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
