[MPlayer-dev-eng] Opportunity for list members (w/ attach)

[Benjamin Zores]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:43:02 -0400
Jeff Gladnick <jeff at snorhino.com> wrote:

> 2) I am not married to mpeg-2, and xvid perhaps may be a better choice, 
> it was just the first one that popped in my head.  Also, the VIA board 
> seemed to support mpeg2 very well.

If you really plan to use a VE5000 (Trident Cyberblade chip) board, you can forget
about reading MPEG2. The board features on-board HW MPEG2 decompression but you wouldn't
be able to make use of it in an embedded Linux system.

Considering an EPIA-M (CLE266 chipset) based board, chances are better. VIA itself released
an hacked version of Xine supporting MPEG1/2 HW decomp.
See : https://sourceforge.net/projects/viaexp/

But all of this requires an X server which you probably do not want to add to your system.
It appears that the best way to play video (MPEG 1/2/4, whatever ...) on EPIA(-M) systems
using MPlayer is to use the VESA output, combined with VidiX.

Anyway, you have much more chances to decode XviD than MPEG2 on EPIA (bitrate is almost
8x lower in most cases).

Just my 0.02$ ...

Benjamin