Linux community but a little guarded WRT specific devices. I still have not found source for an mpeg2 decoder for the EPIA boards I have. Take a hard look at the epia forums.
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
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.
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