[Openchrome-users] Re : CN700, XvMC and HDTV.

Lasse Bigum Lasse
Tue Oct 24 07:03:11 PDT 2006


On 13:25, Mon 23 Oct, manu wrote:
> > I'd say xvmc is more or less useless on this chip if the video player
> > has a good software mpeg2 decoder.
> > 
> > If the HQV (video prefilter engine) is the same as the other group B
> > chips, then CN700 users can also say goodbye to future
> > composite-compatible playback.
> 
> Arghh, this board seems to be completely useless as a low power HTPC  
> basis then! What were they thinking when developping it! Gosh!
> Thank you for sharing your experience, this might save a few of use  
> trying to setup an HTPC.

Crap! Too late for me then :-/

It will just have to make do as a server then, and I will have to cash
out to get another machine that can act as a HTPC then :(

Thanks for the investigation though.

/Lasse
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