Both Xine and VIA developers have been working hard to bring you VeXP, the VIA-enhanced Xine Player. Now VeXP 5.0 is released - a program for Linux distributions including Fedora Core 4, based on the Xine multimedia player. It uses hardware-specific acceleration in decoding and display to have better MPEG2/MPEG-4 playback performance. VeXP 5.0 supports various media types: AVI, ASF, H.264, CDDA, DVD, MP3, VCD, RM and WMV9. VeXP is able to reduce more than 50% of the normal CPU loading with specific hardware such as the VIA CX700(M/M2) chipsets, featured on various VIA EPIA mainboards.The VeXP 5.0 package differs from previous versions. It contains:
- Enhanced xine-lib 1.0.0 and xine-ui library
- API modules
- Full Sample code
- Full Reference Application
- Documentation:
- VeXP 5.0 User Guide v1.0
- VeXP 5.0 API Reference v1.0
- VeXP 5.0 Demo Code Quick Reference v1.0
- readme
End users will benefit from the much improved experience in video playback and a reduction of system power consumption due to the lower CPU utilization. You can grab a copy at SourceForge.net. The code is open in VeXP to program MPEG hardware. Linux developers are encouraged to obtain the CX700 (M/M2) driver source code package and download the VeXP package to build on other distributions. The API module is provided with full sample code and documentation. This will allow users who are interested in multimedia file playback, VOD, PVR, and so on to minimize the development time.
Drivers used in VeXP 5.0 for CX700(M/M2) chipsets under Fedora Core 4 are: