Re: [vdr] xineliboutput sxfe / xxmc / via / EPIA ML6000 : great !

2008-11-25 Thread Frank Schmirler
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:41:54 +0100, Nicolas Huillard wrote Alex Betis a écrit : On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Nicolas Huillard Guys, How about putting the system in suspend mode instead of powering it off and on again? Should take few seconds. Suspend to RAM as always been a pain in

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput sxfe / xxmc / via / EPIA ML6000 : great !

2008-11-25 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Frank Schmirler a écrit : On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:41:54 +0100, Nicolas Huillard wrote This also works around an annoying bug in the (non-upgraded) EPIA BIOS: the PXE LAN boot does not always initialize the network interface after a shutdown. One have to unplug power to boot correctly next

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput sxfe / xxmc / via / EPIA ML6000 : great !

2008-11-25 Thread Frank Schmirler
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:39:19 +0100, Nicolas Huillard wrote Frank Schmirler a écrit : Current via-rhine drivers have a module option to fix this: via-rhine.avoid_D3=1 For older kernes there's a patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/9/17/242 I was sure it wouldn't hurt to ask on this ML...

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput sxfe / xxmc / via / EPIA ML6000 : great !

2008-11-25 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Frank Schmirler a écrit : On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:39:19 +0100, Nicolas Huillard wrote I'd try to insert it on the PXE kernel command-line, but it's explicitely ignored by the kernel : ml6000 kernel: Unknown boot option `via_rhine.avoid_D3=1': ignoring ...or implicitely, when I just add

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput sxfe / xxmc / via / EPIA ML6000 : great !

2008-11-25 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Frank Schmirler wrote: 7 seconds until I get a picture on my EPIA 6000. And this is still pretty long, as I need to upload DXR3 firmware first, then start VDR. Hmm, any particular reason why you need to do that? Recent em8300 driver versions should be able to

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput sxfe / xxmc / via / EPIA ML6000 : great !

2008-11-24 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 24 Nov 2008, at 19:37, Nicolas Huillard wrote: Blah, only one PCI slot. Where are proper low-power MB's with 2 or more PCI slots for DVB-cards? And how much does the server (NFS, DVB- card(s)) use power? No use of PCI in the client. Do you put the DVB cards in the server? --

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput sxfe / xxmc / via / EPIA ML6000 : great !

2008-11-24 Thread Mika Laitio
Blah, only one PCI slot. Where are proper low-power MB's with 2 or more PCI slots for DVB-cards? Asrock A780FullDisplay without DisplayPort card AMD Athlon X4 3850e 2GB DDR2-800 DVD/RW 300W 80+ Green 1x Momentus 7200.3 250GB 2,5 3x WD Caviar Green 1TB 3,5 Terratec Diversity (Dual Tuner)

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput sxfe / xxmc / via / EPIA ML6000 : great !

2008-11-24 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Torgeir Veimo a écrit : On 24 Nov 2008, at 19:37, Nicolas Huillard wrote: Blah, only one PCI slot. Where are proper low-power MB's with 2 or more PCI slots for DVB-cards? And how much does the server (NFS, DVB- card(s)) use power? No use of PCI in the client. Do you put the DVB

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput sxfe / xxmc / via / EPIA ML6000 : great !

2008-11-24 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:58:22 +0100 Holger Rusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The A780 chipset is nice for low-power needs. That's not what I found. I tried to install an Asus MA738EMH last week and had to give up in the end and replace it with a similar board with NVidia 8200 graphics (that choice

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput sxfe / xxmc / via / EPIA ML6000 : great !

2008-11-24 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Mika Laitio a écrit : What I have now tried to search for is a fast booting client for my old P700, that could boot automatically to X with dummy user and then launch the vdr-xineliboutput. The ideal would be that once bios checks have been done, rest of the boot would for getting X and

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput sxfe / xxmc / via / EPIA ML6000 : great !

2008-11-24 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Alex Betis a écrit : On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Nicolas Huillard [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: From kernel first log line in the syslog server (I guess timestamps are when rcS.d/ scripts start to run, ie. does not include kernel load time + initrd), to LIRC accepting the VDR client

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput sxfe / xxmc / via / EPIA ML6000 : great !

2008-11-23 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Torgeir Veimo a écrit : On 22 Nov 2008, at 21:04, Nicolas Huillard wrote: I must tell that the xxmc (XVMC-VLD) decoding is nearly perfect, the OSD is fully transparent on this, and does not take any CPU at all, and the system is on par with softdevice. What cpu usage did you get when

[vdr] xineliboutput sxfe / xxmc / via / EPIA ML6000 : great !

2008-11-22 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Hi all, I'd like to report that I'm really impressed by the new setup I now have. The most problematic thing was proper transparent OSD which would not eat much CPU. I must tell that the xxmc (XVMC-VLD) decoding is nearly perfect, the OSD is fully transparent on this, and does not take any