[Mplayer-advusers] VIA H/W Mpeg 2 Decoder in EPIA-M.

[Konstantinos Karydas]

> > Does anyone use an EPIA-M 10000 Mini-ITX based box?
> > This has an Integrated Hardware MPEG 2 Decoder on board which waits to
> > be used! There is a libddmpeg.so driver file that corresponds to this
> > hardware. My question is: Can I use this driver provided by VIA in
> > Mplayer to have this H/W Mpeg2 Decoder used for mplayer playback?
> > BTW, I tried to contact VIA to acquire the source code of their
> > graphics drivers including the H/W Mpeg2 driver, but unfortunately
> > there is no answer from them for a long time.
> > Anyway, if you know anything at all on this matter, please let me
> > know.
> We've never heard about that libddmpeg.so, anyway if you send us the
> binaries together with a doc about the api and provide some access to a
> such epia board (for example donating one), we could hack support for
> it.

I don't have the sources for the graphics drivers. VIA does not provide them
easily. Just the Binaries.
I can't send you an EPIA-M simply because they are not mine. They belong to
the company I am working at. Maybe you could buy one from VIA. It's a nice
box after all, but it lacks some more serious support. It's a shame it has
this integrated 'Castlerock' H/W MPEG 2 Decoder and there is no support for
it.

>
> --
> Alex Beregszaszi <alex at fsn.hu>
> (MPlayer Core Developer -- http://www.mplayerhq.hu/)
>

Anyway, I am providing some web pages refering to the VIA EPIA-M box with
the integrated 'Castlerock' H/W Mpeg2 Decoder. They say nothing much, but
they could be of help to give you an idea of what this is all about:

http://chown.ath.cx/~greg/epia/graphics.html

http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_m_spec.jsp?motherboardId=81



Some graphics drivers, but no h/w Mpeg2 Decoder support:
http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=325
I have installed the latest platform independant XFree86 Full Binary
(clexf40032-bin.zip) graphics driver, since I am using Redhat 7.3 and this
is the newest driver (after the old platform specific 02/13/2003 driver).


If you can find anything at all in all these to help me I would be grateful.

Thanx in advance,
best regards,

Kostas