The mini-itx epia's mpeg2 decoder

[Guest]

Hi all!

Has anyone had experience with the epia's mpeg2 decoder using VCL? Does it work?

I'm considering building a diskless client based on an epia mini-itx (with built-in mpeg2-decoder) to play streams from the sources residing on a media server, e.g. DVB-card, DVD-player and other media files.

Thanks,
Georg

[Guest]

I'm exploring vlc on an epia m10000 right now. I have mythtv installed and running using the mpeg acceleration. I want to use vlc instead of mplayer for the dvd playback in mythdvd. Right now I'm not able to get vlc 0.8.1 working with the epia's hardware acceleration. This thread suggests it is a bug in something (unichrome driver or vlc). You can run vlc on an m10000 without the mpeg acceleration but cpu utilization is near 100%.

Later this week I'll publish my findings on http://www.magicitx.com if you want to follow up there.

[Guest]

Ok, a little more digging and I have a workaround. The developers on the unichrome list discovered that vlc was switching from YV12 to I420 after the first xvimage was generated. The unichrome driver doesn't like that. I don't know who is going to fix it but anyway...

If you start vlc with --xvideo-chroma=YUY2 it runs fine. Where I was seeing 100% cpu utilization its now around 60%. As an added bonus the dvd menu cursor now works properly (before it was a solid white box).

So yes, vlc will work with the epia's mpeg2 acceleration.

[The DJ]

Could you post the exact words of the developer here?
He can contact us about this issue, if he wants.

[Mac28]

Hello,

How to use this switch
--xvideo-chroma=YUY2
at command line ?
I want to use it with my Epia, too.

Regards
Mac