[mythtv] more newbie impressions

[Robert Kulagowski]

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> Like adding gas to a flame, my interest really piqued when I saw
> this little gadget:
> http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_m_spec.jsp?motherboardId=81
> 
> It's a mini itx motherboard with TV out and an mpeg 2 decoder 
> (among other
> cool things like an LCD interface).

The problem with this (and things like the XCard from Sigma) is that
there aren't linux drivers to take advantage of the MPEG processor
chip.  Without being able to use the hardware decoder, you're still
stuck with regular CPU decoding, and according to the literature on
the VIA website, their C3 / EBGA processor comes in a 933Mhz version.
 No idea if that's fast enough, since I don't have one, but I see
that it also only has MMX and 3DNow instructions (not MMX2), which
impacts deinterlacing.

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