Re: [xine-devel] EPIA-M hardware MPEG2 codec?

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hallo david,

> Not sure whether this question should be asked here or in the user
> list, so I hope you don't mind if it is misdirected. The question I
> have is what is the status of use of the VIA EPIA-M's built-in MPEG2
> codec? Basically on www.viaarena.com, VIA have been stating that they
> are working with the developers of xine to have hardware assisted DVD
> playback on the EPIA-M. However searching the xine mailing lists
> (even the CVS commits) shows nothing corresponding to this...
> 
> Does this mean that VIA are basically lying or is there a serious effort
> to have this hardware MPEG2 codec supported?

afaik they have been contacting xine developers about this a while ago,
but i don't know if anybody really agreed to work on this.

if you're interested in this, why don't you send them an email asking if
you can help out?

> I'd really like to know more about whats happening in xine to support 
> the EPIA-M cause at the moment, the board falls way short of the promises
> VIA made to me when I bought it....

:)) you are certainly not the first one here to find out the hard way
that via hardware is not as cool as advertised... 

guenter

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