[MPlayer-users] Re: mplayer on via C3 chips / epia mini-itx boards

[Luca Micheletti]

hi,

i have read your mail and i have the same problem.

At this moment my situation is this:

i have done lot of work to get best performance, but the cpu is very
very  slow.

In my configuration i use vesa, with append="video=vesa:mtrr:ywrap" in
the lilo.conf and the mplayer command line is "mplayer -vo vesa
http://server/shrek.avi

In this case the cpu is at 90%

I have tried all possible combination but the DVD playing is slow, and
mpeg2 stream from the network is to slow.

I have tried epiafb, trident, directfb, vesa:vidix

You have found a better configuration??

Any suggestion is appreciate.

Thanks in advance and excuse me for my english speaking.
Regards.

* Jason Lunz <lunz at falooley.org> [030203, 00:26]:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> pinguellis at yahoo.co.uk said:
> > You should be OK with the newer EIPA-M series as you can get a 933MHz
> > cpu A few people are already building PVRs with this. Note you wlll
> > need the VIA binary video driver to get the best performance.
> 
> Have you used one of these? I'm hoping to hear from someone with
> firsthand experience.
> 
> I'd like to avoid the M series if possible, because they seem to require
> more cooling (so more noise), and because the video chipset is closed.
> It seems you have to use via's closed driver to use X or do TV out.
> 
> I'd prefer to use the Epia 800, because it uses the Trident
> Cyberblade/i1 chip. Xfree86 already supports that, and mplayer already
> has a vidix driver for it (see
> http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/EPIAVidix.shtml).
> 
> I know people are building PVRs with these things, but I haven't been
> able to find any detailed descriptions of how well it works. I'd like to
> know the machine has good video output before I spend a few hundred
> dollars on it.
> 
> Jason
> 
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