[mythtv] eden machines (was firewire problems)

[Jarod Wilson]

On Saturday 12 March 2005 04:21, Ivor Hewitt wrote:
> On Saturday 12 Mar 2005 00:27, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Friday 11 March 2005 15:25, andrew burke wrote:
> > > > I've since moved the cable box to another machine, which has a PCI
> > > > FireWire card, and all is well again.
> > >
> > > This is plugged into a shuttle XPC machine's onboard firewire.  I would
> > > not be surprised if that was part of the problem.
> > >
> > > That machine is pretty loud, so we had been considering switching to
> > > something quieter, like one of the Eden-based boxes with no fans.
> > >
> > > Has anyone tried mythtv with these boxes?
> >
> > Quite a few people are using assorted EPIA boxes, but I'm assuming you're
> > asking about the new ones with the Unichrome Pro CN400 graphics chips.
> > Not sure how many folks have used those.
>
> Indeed CN400 support is in its infancy... however, I managed to get MPEG2
> accel working on friday... even ran MythTV for a while, although the OSD
> doesn't work yet and the video stuttered a bit in mythtv, but worked fine
> in MPlayer.

Cool! And I like David's CN400-based mini-HDTV-frontend. I'll take two. :-)

> > > Are they capable of handling the encoding/decoding?
> >
> > Of? HDTV recording requires no encoding, you're just writing mpeg2 to
> > disk.
> >
> > > Ideally it would be capable of handling HDTV.
> >
> > I don't think anyone has tried decoding HDTV with one of the new EPIAs
> > w/the CN400 chipset. It'd definitely have to be done in hardware, there's
> > nowhere near enough cpu there.
>
> Tried 1920x1080 HDTV, but it ran at 85% CPU and wrapped around the screen.

Sounds like good progress being made though. I'm definitely thinking about one 
of these to hook up to my HDTV, since the box next to it no longer has any 
capture cards (used to be my main HDTV capture box, but not since getting my 
FireWire cable box going).

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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