On 11/18/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">R. Geoffrey Newbury</b> <<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org">newbury@mandamus.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Michael Haan wrote:<br><br>> I'm thinking about trying it, but I want to be reasonably sure it'll<br>> work before I start buying equipment. Any reason why I couldn't build<br>> myth with HW on this linux variant (I believe it derives from gentoo,
<br>> which I've used before: <a href="http://www.epios.net">http://www.epios.net</a><br><br>I have the SP13000 board and the unichrome-pro drivers, but I just<br>learned today (another thread) that I should have libviaXvMCPro.so.xx
in<br>/etc/X11/XvMCconfig... I actually had libNVIDIA.so.xx....???<br><br>If you are going down the 'roll-your-own' route, check out<br><a href="http://groundstate.ca/C3Myth">http://groundstate.ca/C3Myth</a> where Austin Action explains how to do all
<br>the unichrome bits under Mandriva... you will have to do similar things<br>with the unichrome sourcecode. And some of that is now obsolete with the<br>inclusion of stuff into Xorg...but what bits I am not sure!<br><br>
This board plays DVD's very nicely and can expand a standard TV to full<br>screen with stutter artifacts. But I do not know if it can actually<br>handle the MPEG4 output of HDTV...It would be nice!<br><br>There is no doubt that it can handle the input side of an HD stream, so
<br>it will do as a backend. The question is whether it will front as well.<br><br>Geoff<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>> On 11/18/05, *Bryan Halter* <<a href="mailto:bhalter@armyofpenguins.com">bhalter@armyofpenguins.com
</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:bhalter@armyofpenguins.com">bhalter@armyofpenguins.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>><br>> R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:<br>><br>>>On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:33:34 +1300 (NZDT), Robin Gilks wrote:
<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>>>>Is anyone aware whether the EPIA Nehemiah boards with the CLE266 MPEG2/4<br>>>>>decoders are capable of serving as a viable HDTV frontend, either now, or
<br>>>>>in<br>>>>>the near future?<br>>>>><br>>>>><br>>>>With a CLE266 no, with a CN400 (e.g. SP13000) very likely yes. Only the<br>>>>CN400 has mpeg4 decode capability anyway (apparently).
<br>>>><br>>>><br>>> Are you sure about that? And if so, using what software<br>>> drivers... I have an SP130000. I did not think that I could 'do'<br>>> HDTV with it. I do have an HD3000 card, but I was not intending
<br>>> to attempt actual HDTV output to screen. Geoff R. Geoffrey<br>>> Newbury <a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org">newbury@mandamus.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org">newbury@mandamus.org
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>>><br>>><br>>>If you're going to try it you would need the unichrome drivers. I was wondering about this myself and would love to hear an update onces someone tries it.
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</a><br></blockquote></div><br>I've already got a ready to go backend. In fact, it was a combo fe/be and it handled hd. Problem was, it ran so hot that even water cooling it wasn't enough (i'm just guessing about that. certainly fan-cooling was not enough but i've been experiencing intermittant lock-ups which, i now read, could just've been a myth thing) so i had to leave the case open. Needless to say, it was loud. So, when the mobo died yesterday i started think about making the fe/be split, but i need a machine that can handle FE hdtv duties *quietly* - hence the reason I'm thinking about this.
<br><br>Can anyone out there with one of these machines try playing an hdtv clip and see if it works?<br>