<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">shacky</b> <<a href="mailto:shacky83@gmail.com">shacky83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have to choose a Via Mini-ITX motherboard for my new MythTV system.<br>The choice is between these three models:<br><br>- Via Epia CN10000 Fanless<br>- Via Epia EN12000 Fanless<br>- Via Epia EX10000 Fanless</blockquote>
<div><br>Hi Shacky<br><br>I've got an EX1000EG board. The problem is that it uses a CX700M2 graphics processor. This is pretty new, and isn't supported too well in Linux.<br><br>There are usually two options with VIA graphics drivers - you can use the open source Openchrome drivers, or use VIA's own kind-of-open-source drivers. Unfortunately the Openchrome drivers don't fully support the CX700M2 yet (they don't handle MPEG2 or MPEG4 acceleration).
<br><br>The VIA drivers are a pain to build, but I have got them up and running and accelerating MPEG2 and MPEG4 in mplayer. But (and this is a pretty big but) when I try to play live TV or recordings through Myth, the whole system locks up.
<br><br>I'm in the middle of troubleshooting this at the moment, but as it stands if I were you I'd avoid this board and go for one of the older ones.<br><br>Olly<br></div></div><br>