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

[Jeff Gladnick]

Very interesting.  Well perhaps I will put it to you (and the rest of 
the list).

My goal is close to dvd quality graphics on a 10.4 LCD screen.  Power 
consumption is a huge factor, since the device WILL be powered by 
batteries, recharged nitely.  Hard drive space is ~ 40 gigs, so space 
isn't too huge of an issue, considering there shouldnt be more then 2 
hours or so of video total.

I initally picked the via ve5000 board because it was extremely low in 
power usage, and in their own power consumption guide 
(http://www.viavpsd.com/product/3/4/EPIA%20M%20Operating%20Guidelines%20Versi
on%201.30.pdf) they listed one of the uses as DVD playback, which i 
assumed meant it could handle mpeg2 video playback.

I may have misunderstood.  Your opinions are welcome!

Jeff Gladnick
SnoRhino Snowboard Footrests
http://www.SnoRhino.com
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Benjamin Zores wrote:
> 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
> 
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