Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:35:08 -0600 From: Thomas Donnelly <tad1214@aol.com> To: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a HTPC! Message-ID: <4930019C.30905@aol.com> In-Reply-To: <200811271824.SAA28283@sopwith.solgatos.com> References: <200811271824.SAA28283@sopwith.solgatos.com>
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Dieter wrote: > You can call it a HTPC, media center, DVR, PVR, or whatever. > > Problem #1 is how to get video to the nice TV/display/screen. > Depending on your hardware you might need s-video, composite, > component, RF, RGB (HV sync, composite sync, or sync-on-green), > DVI/HDMI, or displayport. Have I left out any? Some of these > are hard to find outputs for. :-( > > Problem #2 is decoding the codec(s) you have media in. If the > source is high definition, you need a lot of CPU, or GPU support. > A lot of video is in mpeg2 format, including all OTA TV in the US, > most DVDs, some BluRay, etc. Mpeg2 can benefit from Xv and XvMC. > If you want XvMC, the only open source choice seems to be VIA Chrome. > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=openchrome&sektion=4 > > Hmmm is this the same as x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome in ports? > Is anyone successfully using this? > > Then we have this, although I don't see a mention of XvMC in the > posting. > > http://ftp.intron.ac/tmp/xf86-video-via-linux.tar.gz > > See "Anyone would help me to test this port? Another VIA > UniChrome/Chrome9 Driver" in -multimedia@ from intron@intron.ac > on 2008-11-12. > > AMD/ATI claims that they have released enough documentation for > someone to implement Xv and XvMC, but as far as I know no one > has done so. They seem more interested in 3D games. :-( > > Problem #3 is keeping the noise down, which means no disks and > keep the power usage down to reduce or eliminate the need for fans. > I assume that NFS is as brain damaged as always? ("stale file handles" > and such) Does FreeBSD have an alternative? > I have found that smb mounts have always worked great. You could spin up an install on a 8-16GB (fill in the blank of Solid State media) and smb mount in your fstab for a /media or I usually do it in ~htpcuser/mediahelp
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