On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:02:40 -0400 Lucien D. wrote: > Little update on what I said about the VIA mini-itx boards. Been > looking at them a little. Thie via EPIA SP, one of their newest > boards has a graphic processor with integrated MPEG-2 decoder and > MPEG-4 accelerator, not 100% sure what that is. > http://www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_sp_spec.jsp?motherboardId=261 > > It looks pretty sweet, and apparently they've released some of their > drivers for 2.6 as open source. > http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20050412PR204.html
That is good news, but what is really needed is an open source driver for the mpeg-2 decoder, and (now) the "mpeg-4 accelerator" - as you say, whatever that is! > > one drawback is only a single pci slot, so u couldn't have more than > one tuner. but if u wanted to divide between a backend and frontend > this would make a great frontend. you can put in a riser and get two pci slots, which are then parallel to the mainboard and your case can still be slimline. (at least you can on the m series boards, i assume this one will be the same in that respect. > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
