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

[Steven Ellis]

--- D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 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...

You should be OK with the newer EIPA-M series as you
can get a 933MHz cpu A few people are already building
PVRs with this. Note you wlll need the VIA binary
video driver to get the best performance.

Steve


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