Mika Laitio wrote:
For some reason the --video vdpau option for vdr-sxfe still does not
work for me... (Using mandriva 2010 version of everything else except from
own build vdr-1.7.10 and couple od days old xineliboutput plugin with
latest fix being: Fixed generating lirc key release
OK, i finally found the time to complete a VDR PC
based on the ION board.
The good news are:
+ 1080p plays back smoothly with xine/vdpau
with very low CPU usage.
+ sound over HDMI works.
+ the streamdev-client plugin works - even with HD channels.
+ the xine plugin works fine - also with HD
2010/1/2 Mika Laitio lam...@pilppa.org:
OK, i finally found the time to complete a VDR PC
based on the ION board.
The good news are:
+ 1080p plays back smoothly with xine/vdpau
with very low CPU usage.
+ sound over HDMI works.
+ the streamdev-client plugin works - even with HD channels.
+ The fan is a bit loud and so far I have not found
a silent replacement fan.
I also finally setted up my ion system
dto :-)
zotac-A; Dual Core Atom, 32GB-SSD
And over Christmas I managed to make it completely noiseless by
installing a Accelero S1 cooler !!!
On Saturday 02 January 2010, M. Fiegert wrote:
And over Christmas I managed to make it completely noiseless by
installing a Accelero S1 cooler !!!
http://www.schwanthalercomputer.de/advanced_search_result.php?key
words=accelero+S1amp;x=0amp;y=0
this link works better for me:
For those looking for quiet fans, I have found the Nexus PWM series
120mm to be the quietest fan for air flow yet. Moves more air then the
Arctic fans with the same or lower noise level. I have one cooling an
AMD x4 3ghz. I have it set to min speed of about 50% and it takes 100%
load to get
dto :-)
zotac-A; Dual Core Atom, 32GB-SSD
And over Christmas I managed to make it completely noiseless by
installing a Accelero S1 cooler !!!
http://www.schwanthalercomputer.de/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=accelero+S1x=0y=0
The mounting is somewhat unorthodox, but took me less than an
Have you compiled vdr-xineliboutput with --enable-vdpau ?
what does ./configure show and are you using xine-lib-1.2 HG with vdpau patch?
xineliboutput configure shows vdpau in the list of enabled features but
command vdr-sxfe -help does not list vdaup
Available video drivers: xv raw SyncFB
Am Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:43:06 +0100
schrieb Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de:
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 17:55 +, Tony Houghton wrote:
...
+ I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot)
system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE 11.2) performs
unbearably slow, so I was
2009/12/25 Gerald Dachs v...@dachsweb.de
Am Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:43:06 +0100
schrieb Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de:
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 17:55 +, Tony Houghton wrote:
...
+ I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot)
system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:12:56 +0100
Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de wrote:
+ I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot)
system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE 11.2) performs
unbearably slow, so I was forced to install a hard disk.
Another idea: if there's a spare USB
On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 13:02 +, Tony Houghton wrote:
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:12:56 +0100
Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de wrote:
+ I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot)
system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE 11.2) performs
unbearably slow, so I was forced to
What you could do is to make a boot process similar to most rescue or
live-cd/usb. The idea is to make the whole thing run in ram, so boot
by using network or memory stick, copy squashfs to ram and run from
there. Should be lightning fast.
2009/12/25 Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de:
On
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Theunis Potgieter
theunis.potgie...@gmail.com wrote:
What you could do is to make a boot process similar to most rescue or
live-cd/usb. The idea is to make the whole thing run in ram, so boot
by using network or memory stick, copy squashfs to ram and run from
2009/12/25 VDR User user@gmail.com:
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Theunis Potgieter
theunis.potgie...@gmail.com wrote:
What you could do is to make a boot process similar to most rescue or
live-cd/usb. The idea is to make the whole thing run in ram, so boot
by using network or memory
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:23:26 -0800
VDR User user@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Theunis Potgieter
theunis.potgie...@gmail.com wrote:
What you could do is to make a boot process similar to most rescue or
live-cd/usb. The idea is to make the whole thing run in ram, so
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:58:18 +0100
Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de wrote:
On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 13:02 +, Tony Houghton wrote:
Another idea: if there's a spare USB (2.0 High Speed) port you could use
a memory stick instead of NFS.
Good idea.
I suppose this one
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 21:23 +0100, Carsten Koch wrote:
...
I was thinking along the same lines and I have just bought
an ION board.
The main board comes with a CPU and with GeForce 9400 graphics,
so that will be cheaper than the sum of a normal board + CPU +
GeForce 9400 graphics.
OK, i
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:12:56 +0100
Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de wrote:
The not-so-good news are:
+ The fan is a bit loud and so far I have not found
a silent replacement fan.
+ I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot)
system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE 11.2)
Artem Makhutov wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:40:38AM +0200, Lauri Tischler wrote:
Luca Olivetti wrote:
The asus P5N7A-VM motherboard seems a good candidate, is its integrated
9300 graphics powerful enough for good deinterlacing?
P5N7A does not have enough slots :(
Any comments
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:59:26AM +0200, Lauri Tischler wrote:
Artem Makhutov wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:40:38AM +0200, Lauri Tischler wrote:
Luca Olivetti wrote:
The asus P5N7A-VM motherboard seems a good candidate, is its
integrated 9300 graphics powerful enough for
Luca Olivetti wrote:
The asus P5N7A-VM motherboard seems a good candidate, is its integrated
9300 graphics powerful enough for good deinterlacing?
P5N7A does not have enough slots :(
Any comments about M4N78 PRO ?
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On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:40:38AM +0200, Lauri Tischler wrote:
Luca Olivetti wrote:
The asus P5N7A-VM motherboard seems a good candidate, is its integrated
9300 graphics powerful enough for good deinterlacing?
P5N7A does not have enough slots :(
Any comments about M4N78 PRO ?
I
2009/11/16 Seppo Ingalsuo seppo.ingal...@iki.fi:
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 20:24 +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote:
2009/11/15 Timothy D. Lenz tl...@vorgon.com:
The SPDIF can't carry 7.1 sound? It's just digital data stream. Should
be able to carry how ever many channels get encoded to the data
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 12:28 +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote:
In my case, I have a Samsung T260 screen with fibre out, probably
SPDIF. In this case the monitor would then be my limitation. Should I
get an amp that takes hdmi as input and passes video onto the screen?
If the signal source is
En/na Seppo Ingalsuo ha escrit:
With just VDR DVB-C/T/S as a source there probably is no real advantage
to upgrade to HDMI only over legacy SPDIF from TV to AVR setup.
If the only planned source is a pc (running vdr and, say, xmbc), would
it make sense to bypass the av receiver completely
Luca Olivetti wrote:
If the only planned source is a pc (running vdr and, say, xmbc), would
it make sense to bypass the av receiver completely and just decode the
audio on the pc connected to the speakers?
Or it doesn't make sense (since you'll need an amplifier for each
channel anyway, so you
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 20:24 +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote:
2009/11/15 Timothy D. Lenz tl...@vorgon.com:
The SPDIF can't carry 7.1 sound? It's just digital data stream. Should
be able to carry how ever many channels get encoded to the data packets.
Is the problem not bandwidth
En/na Timothy D. Lenz ha escrit:
I have seen USB to serial and parallel adapters, but the parallel ones
are kind of rare and you might need to mod your software
Oh, yes, I'll surely need to modify it, since my driver needs an
old-style parallel port, an usb to parallel converter won't do.
En/na Steffen Barszus ha escrit:
Any card will do or should I look for a specific one with some form of
spdif pass-through?
I don't have experience on this and its not a concern for me, but maybe
still give you some facts:
* the cards all have an audio pass trough, no connector though
* the
En/na Artem Makhutov ha escrit:
I'm still not convinced that a single pci slot is enough though.
I am using TeVii S660 and TeVii S650 USB DVB-S2 cards. So I don't need PCI
slots.
The only problem with the USB devices is that they all require a seperate power
supply.
Would this be an
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 09:45:40AM +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote:
En/na Timothy D. Lenz ha escrit:
I have seen USB to serial and parallel adapters, but the parallel ones
are kind of rare and you might need to mod your software
Oh, yes, I'll surely need to modify it, since my driver needs
Hi,
Seppo Ingalsuo schrieb:
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 09:49 +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote:
Well, considering that I cannot find a way to get audio through hdmi
with my laptop and I couldn't get much help on the alsa-users mailing
list (as couldn't another folk with the same laptop 5 months ago), I am
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 11:48 +0100, Artem Makhutov wrote:
You can use an .asoundrc to encode 7.1ch PCM to AC3 or DTS and use the
SPDIF over HDMI as output device.
Tandem coding is not healthy for audio quality if highest quality
matters and DD at handles 5.1 only.
I am also not aware of any
Hi,
Seppo Ingalsuo schrieb:
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 11:48 +0100, Artem Makhutov wrote:
You can use an .asoundrc to encode 7.1ch PCM to AC3 or DTS and use the
SPDIF over HDMI as output device.
Tandem coding is not healthy for audio quality if highest quality
matters and DD at handles 5.1 only.
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 12:24 +0100, Artem Makhutov wrote:
Sorry, then I don't understand your problem. I have absolutly no
problems with my Zotac ION Mainboard and HDMI Audio output.
I think some motherboard integrated chipsets have had working HDMI audio
for some time, even Nvidia, PCI-E
En/na Seppo Ingalsuo ha escrit:
The situation with Nvidia HDMI audio is perhaps improving, by Googling I
found this one:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=140264
I solved the hw/vendor id thing. Now it is showing when aplay -l but it
has 4 different pcm devices with none of
If you know something about electronics you could use an unused hard
drive connector from your power supply. Bring it out of the case through
some connector on that back of the case. Run it to a box with jacks for
all your USB tuners to plug into. Just need to check voltages needed by
each
The SPDIF can't carry 7.1 sound? It's just digital data stream. Should
be able to carry how ever many channels get encoded to the data packets.
Seppo Ingalsuo wrote:
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 09:49 +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote:
Well, considering that I cannot find a way to get audio through hdmi
2009/11/15 Timothy D. Lenz tl...@vorgon.com:
The SPDIF can't carry 7.1 sound? It's just digital data stream. Should
be able to carry how ever many channels get encoded to the data packets.
Is the problem not bandwidth requirements?
Seppo Ingalsuo wrote:
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 09:49 +0100,
Am 14.11.2009 13:55, schrieb Steffen Barszus:
C2D E7x00
Mainboard w/o IGP
GT210/220
Tested a G210: No HDMI sound support with vanilla kernel 2.6.31, and
with the simple patch [1] the device is detected but no sound is
available, as in [2]. Seems to require more effort to enable G210/GT220
Luca Olivetti schrieb:
En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit:
The asus P5N7A-VM motherboard seems a good candidate, is its
integrated 9300 graphics powerful enough for good deinterlacing?
Mmmh, I hate to reply to my own message, but it seems it isn't
available anywhere, at least here in Spain :-(
The asus P5N7A-VM motherboard seems a good candidate, is its
integrated 9300 graphics powerful enough for good deinterlacing?
Mmmh, I hate to reply to my own message, but it seems it isn't
available anywhere, at least here in Spain :-(
I'm just at the same task at the moment.
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Luca Olivetti l...@ventoso.org wrote:
En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit:
The asus P5N7A-VM motherboard seems a good candidate, is its integrated
9300 graphics powerful enough for good deinterlacing?
Mmmh, I hate to reply to my own message, but it seems it
En/na Steffen Barszus ha escrit:
Vdpau enabled IGP motherboards except ION systems seem not to be
available at all for some reason.
Maybe because they are old. It's a pity because they seems a good
choice: cheap, small, powerful and passively cooled.
Same for passive Nvidia GT220 cards
En/na Andrew Herron ha escrit:
The P5N7A-VM seems to have been discontinued by ASUS. We have a number
at customer sites and the this motherboard does a good job using
Temporal 2x with VDPAU.
As I said to Steffen it's a pity that they're no longer available.
Maybe there is some newer model
En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit:
Even if its german, this might give you a good overview:
http://wbreu.htpc-forum.de/vdpaukompendium/leistungsvergleichgrafikchipsonboardchips/index.php
Thanks, that's a good overview.
According to it the GT210 only supports temporal, so it doesn't seem
such a
Check the linux forums at http://www.nvnews.net/. Sounds like the GT220
would be a good choice. Maybe even the GT210. I have an 8400 with the
newer chip and it's is marginal at best and won't do the advanced deint.
Luca Olivetti wrote:
Hello,
Now that I have an hd tv set, I'm looking at
NewEgg or ZipZoomFly don't ship to spain?
Steffen Barszus wrote:
Luca Olivetti schrieb:
En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit:
The asus P5N7A-VM motherboard seems a good candidate, is its
integrated 9300 graphics powerful enough for good deinterlacing?
Mmmh, I hate to reply to my own message,
En/na Timothy D. Lenz ha escrit:
NewEgg or ZipZoomFly don't ship to spain?
No, but even if they did the shipping, taxes and customs fees would cost
more than the wares.
Bye
--
Luca
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On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 13:17 +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote:
Hello,
Now that I have an hd tv set, I'm looking at revamping my ageing vdr
system for hd.
Oh, and I want it to be really cheap ;-)
I was thinking along the same lines and I have just bought
an ION board.
The main board comes with a
En/na Steffen Barszus ha escrit:
C2D E7x00
Isn't that overkill? (I mean, with hw accelerated people are using an atom)
Mainboard w/o IGP
GT210/220
If I go this route (separate motherboard and graphic card) what about
audio through hdmi?
Any card will do or should I look for a specific
En/na Carsten Koch ha escrit:
Here in Germany, there are only two Atom boards with 1 PCI slot
and GeForce 9400 graphics:
http://geizhals.at/deutschland/?cat=mb1ppga_ddrxf=597_GeForce+9400~489_1
Yes, but the problem is that I need a parallel port for the actuator
(though maybe I could adapt
Luca Olivetti schrieb:
En/na Steffen Barszus ha escrit:
C2D E7x00
Isn't that overkill? (I mean, with hw accelerated people are using an
atom)
Yes it is, but
* the CPU should have some potential for undervolting
* configuration on speedstep i hope i can tweak
I hope to get some potential
I have seen USB to serial and parallel adapters, but the parallel ones
are kind of rare and you might need to mod your software
Luca Olivetti wrote:
En/na Carsten Koch ha escrit:
Here in Germany, there are only two Atom boards with 1 PCI slot
and GeForce 9400 graphics:
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