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Originally Posted by CollinR
Alot of the Epia's specific problems don't come directly from their video hardware. This is why they work fine for many many other video apps outside BTV. Intel integrated graphics and what Via has onboard are both better then whats inside a mediaMVP which appears to work okay. I also suspect they may have been tring to encode video with it as well, an Epia is surely not up to that task while tring to display it realtime. Most of the problem is inside WXP and more in BTV depending on parts of XP. The Motorola DVRs that the cable co pumps out have half the processing power of an Epia but their single purpose firmware makes much more efficent use of it. Another issue I have seen that poses problems is people encoding at 720x480 and displaying it at 1920x1080, thats just silly and it takes power to scale it that far and results in a junky percieved image quality because 60% of what you see was generated while scaling up 200%+. It would be much better IMO if BTV had a PIP function that allowed you to watch multiple things at once on that display. Me personally I only display at ~about~ 640x480 in the top right corner, a multiplexed CCTV feed in the lower right corner @320x240 and usually a web browser taking up the remaining approx 800x766 on the left side. On a 50" plasma @ 1366x768 BTV still gets about the same amount of screen as a 25" 4:3 TV set and the video is as close to 1:1 as I can get it so my picture quality looks excellent and boo koo cool and WAF factor.
If you know someone personally with an Epia I would be happy to try and give them some help, see if we can't trim some fat off the OS and maybe just some helpful pointers in the configuration.
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I understand what you're saying and you're right. The problem isn't necessarily that the EPIA doesn't have enough power, the real problem is BTV's framework not being designed to really utilize the power. MythTV is working fine on EPIA systems, so it can obviously be done, but Snapstream's BTV is really targeted toward traditional accellerated GPU's, like Nvidia and ATI. BTV doesn't work well with VIA, Intel, SIS, or other graphics solutions.