[wellylug] Mini-ITX Motherboard

[Robin Jury]

There are drivers for the video on the via website and also there are 
groups doing patches. You may have some dicking about getting them to 
work, depending on what kernel and distro you are using.  They include 
video drivers for framebuffer mode (viafb) and for X.  With my M9000 I'm 
getting about 440 FPS out of glxgears with the X driver.

The hardware does MPEG4 decoding, not decryption as far as I know.  Via 
put out a modded version of xine which uses the hardware for playback.

cheers

R

Jethro Carr wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> I want to build a mini-itx system.
> 
> 
> I've looked at EPIA motherboards, such as the VIA EPIA-M10000
> (http://www.ascent.co.nz/mn-product-spec.asp?pid=337147) but I have a
> few questions:
> 
> - is the video card supported under linux? I've read conficiting
> information about this on the web.
> 
> - does the hardware dvd decrytion mean that I don't need libdvdcss? Does
> it work on Linux?
> 
> If anyone can direct me to some answers, or mention other mini-itx
> boards which can play DVD's without using the libdvdcss libary, it would
> be really helpfull.
> 
> 
> 
> Also, as a side note:
> 
> someone at the lug mentioned to me that dvd descryption without using
> libdvdcss, is possible with hardware decrytion What sort of devices do
> you need for this, and where can you get them?
> 
> 
> thanks,
>