[mythtv-users] MythTV frontend on EPIA pc?

[David George]

On 05/24/2007 06:26 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Søren Dalsgaard wrote:
>   
>> I was thinking of getting one of these:
>>
>> http://www.syd-data.dk/product_info.php/cPath/266_305/products_id/3315
>>
>> EPIA-EN15000G / EPIA-EN12000EG
>>
>> Does anyone have any experiences with this one?
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> The board has a VT1625 tv-out encoder chip, but a) I don't think the 
> resolution of that has been published, and b) more importantly, the 
> openchrome guys do not yet have the VT1625 chips entirely figured out yet.
>   
I was able to get the VT1625 datasheet from Via a couple of years ago 
and did the initial work on the component output support for it, but 
stopped do to time pressures.  I sent what I had done to Ivor for 
inclusion into openchrome (unichrome back then).  Since then I think 
some people have added a couple of PAL modes, but I haven't seen any 
real progress on the VT1625.  It chip does support 1920x1080i resolution 
though.  I think where I left off was a problem with the interlace 
support in via_mode.c, but I am not sure.  Here is the changelog for the 
vt1625 additions: http://www.openchrome.org/trac/changeset/31in case 
anyone wants to pick this up.
> OTOH, the EX series has a higher output resolution (cannot find a 
> reference quickly but ISTR 1920 by 1200 on VGA...same problem with the 
> tv-out encoder chip. Both the EX and EN series run variants of the 
> CX700M chipset about which Via says very little in the way of actual 
> technical specs.
>
> And at least one of the Nano sized boards has the same chipset..but you 
> will need a mini-pci to pci adapter for the usual tuners...but ISTR that 
> one of the Nano boards has 2 LAN jacks, so an HDHomeRun would work 
> nicely. (Presuming that the board otherwise meets requirements and you 
> do not need a PCI based tuner plug into it!)
>   
Don't need a PCI based tuner.  There are plenty of USB based ones out 
there that work with Linux and Mythtv (PVR-USB2 for SDTV, FusionHDTV 5 
USB for HDTV, and others)

-- 
David