A presentation

[tony]

Hello,

I'm new - and old fashioned... I remember the days when, if one joined a
list, it was good etiquette to present ones self. I still do that.

Today's news and various mail from RHN sent me a signal that it was time
to give back a little more. I seem to be one of the few reading /. that
actually understand why the changes underway are happening. And why they
are good. Good for Linux. Good for Redhat. And good for users such as
myself.

I have been using Redhat Linux since 1997. I have a habit of installing
it on strange hardware: the first time was on a Mac PowerBook running a
***@rez beta copy of VirtualPC. I learnt more about Linux in those three
weeks than I have since. I learnt so much about Redhat Linux that I have
only flirted with other distros.

I ran it on some classic iron for a time. Then I graduated to a Sony
C1XD Picturebook. I still use that on the road.

My main machine is now a hush mini-ITX Epia-M machine. I hope to sell
these machines with a Linux desktop installed (DVD playback is my
current battle).

I don't know where I can help. But I'm here, and willing to do so.

Cheers

Tony Grant

[Kevin Worthington]

Post by tony
My main machine is now a hush mini-ITX Epia-M machine. I hope to sell
these machines with a Linux desktop installed (DVD playback is my
current battle).

To get DVD playback, go to http://freshrpms.net
Matthias has all the necessary codecs and packages there to watch DVDs.
HTH,
Kev
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Kevin Worthington - <kworthington (at) linuxmail {dot} org>
Faithful Red Hat Linux user since April 1998
Registered Linux User #218689 - http://counter.li.org

[Carwyn Edwards]

Post by Kevin Worthington

Post by tony
My main machine is now a hush mini-ITX Epia-M machine. I hope to sell
these machines with a Linux desktop installed (DVD playback is my
current battle).

To get DVD playback, go to http://freshrpms.net
Matthias has all the necessary codecs and packages there to watch DVDs.

http://forums.viaarena.com/ is the place to look in the

OS Arena -> Linux Arena area

Actaully, skimming them just now :
http://www3.sympatico.ca/howlettfamily/epia/epia.html

.. seems like the best place to start.

Carwyn

[tony]

Post by Carwyn Edwards

Post by Kevin Worthington

Post by tony
My main machine is now a hush mini-ITX Epia-M machine. I hope to sell
these machines with a Linux desktop installed (DVD playback is my
current battle).

To get DVD playback, go to http://freshrpms.net
Matthias has all the necessary codecs and packages there to watch DVDs.

http://forums.viaarena.com/ is the place to look in the
OS Arena -> Linux Arena area
http://www3.sympatico.ca/howlettfamily/epia/epia.html
.. seems like the best place to start.

The Redhat 9 RPM there were debugged by myself... They "work" but the HW
mpeg2 stuff is very buggy and the modified version of Xine must be run
as root.

When I said "DVD playback is my current battle" I meant that it was what
I am working on right now. My next step will be to get the RPMs to build
on Fedora.

Cheers

Tony Grant

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Post by tony

Post by Carwyn Edwards

Post by Kevin Worthington

Post by tony
My main machine is now a hush mini-ITX Epia-M machine. I hope to sell
these machines with a Linux desktop installed (DVD playback is my
current battle).

To get DVD playback, go to http://freshrpms.net
Matthias has all the necessary codecs and packages there to watch DVDs.

http://forums.viaarena.com/ is the place to look in the
OS Arena -> Linux Arena area
http://www3.sympatico.ca/howlettfamily/epia/epia.html
.. seems like the best place to start.

The Redhat 9 RPM there were debugged by myself... They "work" but the HW
mpeg2 stuff is very buggy and the modified version of Xine must be run
as root.
When I said "DVD playback is my current battle" I meant that it was what
I am working on right now. My next step will be to get the RPMs to build
on Fedora.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but AFAIK both mplayer and xine
from rpm.livna.org work perfectly. (using myself)

Post by tony
Cheers
Tony Grant

behdad

[tony]

Post by Behdad Esfahbod

Post by tony
My main machine is now a hush mini-ITX Epia-M machine.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but AFAIK both mplayer and xine
from rpm.livna.org work perfectly. (using myself)

With hardware mpeg2 acceleration? on a M10000?

mplayer uses > 90% CPU and sound drops off very quickly (memory leak)
xine plays video but not sound and without hardware acceleration uses

Post by Behdad Esfahbod
60% CPU

Via version of xine (VeXP) uses 35% CPU. But it is a buggy as (your word
goes here).

ogle plays sound and not video to complete the list.

The support for Epia M is on its way (I think a certain Alan Cox may be
working on it) but for now the Via stuff has best performance.

Cheers

Tony Grant