[mythtv-users] Confusion - Myth/Epia/Unichrome ??

[David Lodeiro]

Hi,
>   Can someone please give me a sanity check here? I'm now totally
> confused about the best way to take advantage of the open-source drivers
> for hardware decoding with my Epia-M. I'm currently running MythTV on my
> Epia with a stock RH9 install and the VIA binary drivers. I'd like to
> switch to the open-source drivers, and possibly away from RH altogether,
> maybe to Gentoo....but regardless of the distribution, how do I get the
> open-source hardware decoding running? What combination of things is
> required to get it done? Just Unichrome installation? I don't think so.
> Is it the Epia Kernel, plus unichrome? Or is there even more to it than
> that?
>
> Sorry if I'm being dense, but I'm definitely a bit confused at this point.
I feel your pain, I am battling through the same thing at the moment. From 
what I understand, you need:
-> Epia Kernel
-> Unichrome Pathched XFree86
-> libddmpeg
-> A lot of patience

I would suggest sticking with a 2.4 kernel ( probably 2.4.25-epia2-r2, I think 
thats it of the top of my head ), the 2.6 stuff is meant to still be a work 
in progress. And gentoo is in my opinion a good choice of distro as a lot of 
the open source epia stuff has ebuilds available.
>
> TIA,
> Mike
Seeya

David