New subject: the EPIA universe

23 Sep 2003


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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:54:10 +0800
From: Andrew Ip aip@cwlinux.com
To: ron minnich rminnich@lanl.gov
Cc: Niki Waibel niki.waibel@newlogic.com, linuxbios@clustermatic.org
Subject: Re: the EPIA universe
Hi,
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name          CPU     Extension       Speed           RAM remarks
EPIA-M         C3         3DNOW     800 Mhz         SDRAM
EPIA-M         C3         3DNOW     600 MHz         SDRAM fanless
I think all EPIA-M uses ddr, and EPIA/EPIA-V uses sdram.  Also,
any CPU less or equal to 600MHz doesn't come with fan.  Furthermore,
EPIA-M comes with MPEG-2 decoder.  VIA has released source code for
mpeg-2 is and also X driver recently.  If you want to try mpeg-2 decoder,
the easiest way is to use mplayer which just has got it supported.
AFAIK, EPIA-M 10000 is able to play mpeg-2 even without using the hw
decoder.
-Andrew
Hi Andrew,
where did you get the information that mplayer now supports the mpeg-2 
decoder for the epia-m? Couldn't find it anywhere.....
Also I'm a little confused about the source for the mpeg-2 decoder - I just
know that they support a precompiled version of xine (called VeXP) for
some Linux distributions and the source of the lite version of the CLE266
drivers (without hw-mpeg2). Did I miss some good news here?
thnax,
Michael