[Openchrome-users] EPIA SP 13000 and ubuntu

[Xavier Bachelot]

Hi Michele,

> I'm not sure I need 3D acceleration

3D actually means openGL. It's not needed to play videos, only for some 
games, some screensavers, etc...

> I should only play advertising Video on a plasma TV (Mpeg2 and Mpeg4)
>
The driver doesn't support MPEG4 accel at the moment.

> 
> I tried xine with this command line
> 
> xine -V viaXvMCPro --no-logo -g  myvideo.mp2
> 
> end tha result is quite good (fluent)
> 
the command line is wrong. It should read :

xine -V xxmc --no-logo -g myvideo.mp2

> 
> Insted, I tried a mpeg4 video (xvid) with xine  and it start quite
> good but after it block itself giving a lot of "vop non coded" on the
> shell (it could be a xine lacks - on on other computer i can play it
> with mplayer - but in this ubuntu installation I can't recompile
> mplayer due to gcc version)
> 
> I tried a AVC h264 coded video and xine can't haldle it
> Trying with vlc
> vlc -V viaXvMCPro h264video
>
I don't know vlc well, but again the command line seems wrong.
man xine
man vlc

> It only shows first screenshot of the video and it starts only after 5
> second giving back ffmpeg decoder error : more than 5 second of late
> video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)
>
you should have enough power to play almost any videos with a 1,3 Ghz 
Nehemiah, even without hardware acceleration.

> 
> Should I resign to use only mpeg2 at this moment ?
no
> 
> There is no way to use mpeg4 video (xvid h264 etc)
> 
there is, it will just not use hw accel

> What do you think of Via modified Xine / Mplayer ?

don't use it. it's broken and unsecure.

> I tried to install xine (vexp) but it give me back an error in script
> installation
> It seems to be non much cured installation script
> error _AM_DEPENDENCIES(OBJC)  (the error that script gives me )
> 
I've told you it's broken ;-)

Regards,

Xavier