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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>The proprietary
drivers from VIA contain support for most chipsets, mpeg2 and mpeg4
acceleration, but are of low quality and often unstable. In addition, the 3D
driver leaves your system open for attack by malicious clients, and furthermore,
applications that accelerate mpeg2 and mpeg4 must be run as root, which is a <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>very</span></b> bad idea if they contain
vulnerabilities (and they do). Avoid using these drivers unless you know what
you are really doing! The drivers can be found </span></font><font size=2
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color:black'><a href="http://www.viaarena.com"><font color=black><span
lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>here</span></font></a></span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'>. Also, these drivers are distribution
specific and a driver for different distribution other than yours might not
work.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The last driver from via
are very new<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>So are all these issue’s
still true, are the drivers still not stable and do I still have to run as root
to make use off the hardware acceleration.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Namens </span></b>Kevin Slater<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Verzonden:</span></b> maandag 12 maart 2007
23:01<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Aan:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Discussion
about mythtv</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Onderwerp:</span></b> Re: [mythtv-users] VIA
EPIA EX-series Mini-ITX Mainboard</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 3/12/07, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Wim
Fokkens</span></b> <<a href="mailto:wimfokkens@planet.nl">wimfokkens@planet.nl</a>>
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Wim,<br>
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I think the biggest question you'd have to look at is does Myth support the
features that the driver seems to support in the chipset. The Unichrome drivers
have been developed to take advantage of the MPEG-2 hardware decryption (via
XvMC) and then these drivers are leveraged in MythTV. I'm not sure the same
would be true of the via drivers.<br>
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I have an SP13000 with a CN400 chipset and I also have the DVI-02 daughter
card, so I'm quite interested in what else you can find out about this new
motherboard and whether the drivers implement some standard Linux and/or Xorg
video acceleration specification.<br>
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