[mythtv-users] Foxconn NVIDIA ION system and 2G ram stick at newegg

[Dan Wilga]

On 8/27/10 10:18 AM, Joe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:34 PM, MacNean Tyrrell<dardack at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>>> On 23 Aug 10 06:56, Dan Wilga wrote:
>>>        
>>>> I am able to play 1080i .mkv or MP2 video using the VDPAU Slim profile
>>>> on my Foxconn box. However, it does eventually lock up the system (as
>>>> does pretty much any kind of video). According to one of nVidia's techs,
>>>> the problem is most likely not the lack of RAM, though.
>>>>          
>>> FWIW, I've not had any lock-up problems with an Acer Aspire Revo 1600.
>>> at least.)  I've not had any crashes attributable to VDPAU...for that
>>> matter, I
>>> don't recall having any crashes with it at all.
>>>        
> I'm suffering a bit of buyer's remorse at this point after reading
> this thread.  I jumped on the Newegg shell shocker last friday without
> really researching it much, as I was looking for a cheap frontend.
>
> It just arrived, but I haven't really unwrapped it yet to test it out.
>   Should I send it back?
>    
If you can live with not using VDPAU, then I'd say keep it. It seems to 
work fine for me when playing most content this way. If you need 1080i/p 
.mkv or good quality deinterlacing, then the CPU will probably not be 
able to handle it without VDPAU, and the result will be jerkiness. 
Remember, this is a dual-core machine, so it can do fairly well without 
VDPAU.

I've been spending what little free time I have in the evenings trying 
to put together a complete distro in a single file for the nVidia guy to 
test with. I'm going to send that first for him to test on his hardware; 
failing that, I'll send him my Foxconn box.

-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."