EPIA M10000 - MPEG2 hardware acclr

[realkiwi]

Originally posted by: mikeecuffe
BTW - the drivers for the MII on www.viaembedded.com are out of
date - which is the problem I had, I think via are relying on the
arena too much.

Shouldn't that read "completely"?

Tony

[mikeecuffe]

Not 'completely' because the MOBO page on www.viaembedded.com
offers download links to the out-of-date drivers.</p>



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but I can't run any background tasks if I watch a DVD as it
chops if I do. I can't even keep my wireless NIC open! Can
anyone back the benefit of linux over XP for performance? as this
is intolerable.</p>

[realkiwi]

Watching DVD with xine without HW MPEG2 acceleration was nigh impossible with spamassassin cleaning incoming mail.

With HW acceleration in xine CPU is 10-15% so you can run background tasks without a problem. I just bought and watched LOTR extended and there was not a dropped frame during the three films. I had VDR recording a DVB-S TV show (Doctor Who). Spamassassin and Evolution running the whole time.

Tony

[jakegaisser]

I will take any help I can get, I cannot get my cpu usage anywhere near what you guys are saying. It seems to hover between 80-100% and I get lots of stuttering during playback.

Epia M10000 (Nehemiah) with 1GB ram
I am running XP SP3 retail

My resolution is 640x480, so I really think this system should be able to handle it.

Which drivers are the correct ones?

here are the ones I installed:
Version 5.21A of the Hyperion Pro drivers: http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/via_h...npro_v521a.zip

Version - 16.94.44.45_Rotation CLE266 Graphics Driver: http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/CLE26...tion_logod.zip

Version - 7.00b VIA Vinyl Audio driver: http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/vinyl_v700b.zip

Also installed is:
DirectX 9.0c
Microsoft .NET framework 2.0
WINDVD5
Latest CombinedCommunityCodecPack CCCP: Combined Community Codec Pack

Please help me, when I goto advanced settings for windows media player it always shows software selected for the prefered decoder and the options box is greyed out so I cannot change it to hardware.

[jakegaisser]

You know what, I just started an mp3 file in windows media player and I am still getting 60% cpu usage, there is no chance in hell it should be using 60%, does anyone have any idea what is going on here?

now if i disable the visualization in WMP then the cpu usage goes betwen 1-8% cpu usage.

[Mr. Chris]

Since you don't have an add in video card that has it's own GPU, your CPU is doing all the work. Not surprised you hit 80 to 100% CPU load. That is also why you cannot enable Hardware Acceleration, there isn't any.

If you look at Realkiwi's Signature, you see he's running Linux. Chris.

[islandTime]

Get your M10000 drivers at
VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX Board - VIA Technologies, Inc.

Be sure you are running the latest bios (v1.16) with the VGA driver on this page.

Back in 2004 & 2005 when I was building M10000 machines WinDVD did not seem to support hardware acceleration on the M10000. I used PowerDVD4 which did support it. You can expect 20-30% cpu usage with PowerDVD4 if you check "use hardware acceleration".