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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 6:31 am 
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works great for watching TV and playing divx's.

I may drop this to tier2 as with editing I'm finding may improvements, using the mpeg decoder, better video drivers, a tunned kernel ect. When it all works I'll post how-to s.

For DVD playback I would recomend turning on dma (hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd?) to any dvd drive and getting the optimised for castle rock dvd player

https://sourceforge.net/projects/viaexp/

If you are in the UK I would also recomend

http://www.linitx.com

their service and support are increadable. The first board I received had an obscure fault, gcc failed with SEG faults at random intervals. They shipped me a second board and 512MB memory stick on next day post for me to test if it was a hardware fault, which it was.

Also if you are in UK some editing is required, but that is not because of the hardware.


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:27 am 
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I use the same mobo with a PVR-350.

Apart from the PVR-350 I sourced everything from LintITX - they're the best company I have bought anything from online. They actually seem to care....


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 12:39 pm 
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The following changes make viewing at 480x480 live tv work at about 60% cpu.

It also helps with non-accelerated dvd playback

su
[password]
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/
wget http://www.shipmail.org/7Ethomas/via/xf ... _drv.o.bz2
bzip2 -d via_drv.o.bz2
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/
wget http://www.shipmail.org/%7Ethomas/via/d ... dri.so.bz2
bzip2 -d via_dri.o.bz2

vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
#change in the device section
Driver "via"
Option "DPMS"

#open GL interface libs
apt-get install libglut3


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:22 pm 
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Location: Leicestershire, UK
I was interested in your post, since I was considering using an EPIA MS10000 since this is fanless with 1GHz speed. Do you use the fanless version, if so, does the case need a fan to remove the heat, or can I go for a totally fanless solution?

I want to put the whole set up underneath the TV where the current video recorder is, so quiet operation is required.

I intend to partner the mobo with a PVR350.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Algenon.


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:39 pm 
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Why spend the extra money a 350 with a 150 or 250 would work? The only reason someone would get a 350 (IMO) is if there didn't have enough horsepower to decode MPEG2.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:06 am 
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cesman wrote:
Why spend the extra money a 350 with a 150 or 250 would work? The only reason someone would get a 350 (IMO) is if there didn't have enough horsepower to decode MPEG2.


True. For me the PVR350 output looks much crisper than the onboard svideo out though.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:39 am 
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Ruleke,

I have just managed to get my myth box working reasonably well, and I am using the TV out from the EPIA mother board. The picture quality is not that good and since I have a PVR350 installed I wonder if you know how to get it working? Do I need to change the XF86config-4 file?

Regards,

Alan.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:09 am 
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Algenon wrote:
Ruleke,

I have just managed to get my myth box working reasonably well, and I am using the TV out from the EPIA mother board. The picture quality is not that good and since I have a PVR350 installed I wonder if you know how to get it working? Do I need to change the XF86config-4 file?


Yes you do. You need to loqd the ivtv-fb driver module, use the ivtvdriver X modules (http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/xdriver/0.10.6/) and make the needed changes in the XF86config-4 (or xorg config) file.

Detailed instructions can be found at http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php


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