[mythtv-users] System 'locking' on Watch TV

[Russell Tweed]

Thursday, April 24, 2003, 6:56:27 PM, Dan wrote:

> Recently I began working on setting up a 2 PC Myth system using a Athlon XP-1700 for the backend and an EPIA-M900 for the front end and I was having good success with it.  However after reading
> about the progress for support of the PVR-250 I went out and bought one.

> For fun I decided to install the PVR-250 into the EPIA-M system and install Windows 2000.  The results made me want to pull my hair out!  The PVR-250 with its hardware MPEG2 encoder and the EPIA-M
> with its hardware decoder worked beautifly together.  With DVD quality encoding I was able to record, watch, and pause live TV flawlessly; it was truely impressive.

> Anyone know how to give Via a kick in the rear to get us support for their decoder under Linux?

Got this combo for months now and believe me I and others bugged
VIA numerous times to get the mpeg2 H/W accel going. After much discussion
in the VIAARENA forums VIA handed over the documentation and sources
to Alan Cox. (NDA?) But since Alan has released the sources into the
open and expressing himself as vaguely involved i am not sure what to
expect next.

http://bugs.xfree86.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154

Fiona Gatt (VIA) states here that the xine project is involved to get
the accel going.

http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.cfm?catid=28&threadid=35890

And Alan Cox is still hopeful.....

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-video&m=105103598027180&w=2

So not sure who needs to be kicked in the rear. VIA, Alan, Xine ?

   /Robert