[mythtv-users] just bought an SP13000, did I make a stupid mistake?

[Kevin Slater]

Warren,

it certainly does help. Thanks for the input. I'm hoping to find a suitable
test PS to crank this up with. I have the parts and their CD, now I have to
find time..

...Kevin

On 5/17/06, Warren <warren-lists at icruise.com> wrote:
>
> Kevin Slater wrote:
>
> > Greg (or others),
> >
> > maybe you can clear up some confusion:
> >
> > Unichrome? Openchrome? Which to use? Why two different projects? Does
> > anything take advantage of the mpeg4 acceleration that the CN400
> > chipset provides?
> >
> > I know of a few distros that were either slanted towards, supported or
> > specifically targeted at the via epia series: epios, minimyth, imedia,
> > knoppmyth. Is any of these worth starting with? I need my box to be
> > both front and backends (so I think that knocks out Larry Matter's
> > minimyth).
> >
> > ...Kevin
>
> I know this reply is a bit late but I've been on a cruise ship :)
>
> Unichrome was started by a developer named Luc who recruited a couple of
> other guys named Ivor and Thomas who had also been working on code and
> kernel patches for the CLE266 chipset for X video, and MPEG2
> acceleration.  Then Unichrome was forked to create OpenChrome.  This was
> done for 2 reasons.  (1) Luc tended to be a bit abrasive and Ivor and
> Thomas had backed away from Unichrome along with a bunch of other
> developers.  (2) Ivor had been creating a set of patches for Unichrome
> that also enabled MPEG2 acceleration for the CN400 chipset (used on your
> EPIA-SP motherboard).
>
> Unichrome by this point had been incorporated into the 2.6 kernel, so if
> you want MPEG2 on an EPIA-SP you need to use the OpenChrone code instead
> of the Unichrome code.
>
> Hope that is of some use.
> W
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