[MPlayer-users] mplayer on via C3 chips / epia mini-itx boards

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 09:38:14PM +0000, Jason Lunz wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Does anyone have any experience using mplayer to do TV-out on Via's epia
> mainboards? (http://www.mini-itx.com) I'm thinking about building a
> little media display box with one of these, but from what I've read
> these systems are at the edge of being fast enough.

No personal experience, but I've heard a little bit...

> My plan is to netboot the machine (so no hard disk), so the box would
> pretty much be doing only nfs reads and video display.
> 
> Anyone have success or failure stories? Can it keep up with VCD mpegs?
> divx? DVD mpeg2 files? Is the video quality good on the TV?

VCD and low-res divx should be no problem whatsoever. DVD is doubtful,
but it might be tolerable with -framedrop if your DVD's are coded
IBPBPBPBPB or something, since B frames can be totally dropped.
Unfortunately I think this varies from disc to disc. I'm not sure
about normal-res (e.g. 640x272) divx...

Rich