CLE266 / Unichrome

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: CLE266 / Unichrome
started by: Switters

Posted by Switters on June 10 2005,18:34

This post may be in the wrong section, but regardless, has anyone been able to get hardware decoding using the CLE266 northbridge chip going in DSL?

I have an Epia-M 6000 board which only runs at 600mz, and full screen movies are often choppy, but my board apparently plays video from the northbridge chip smoothly - tricky enough to get going on a regular kernel/xorg system, but has anyone tried in DSL?

I believe it requires a Kernel module, and xorg driver, as well as custom xine/mplayer plugins (or perhaps even custom xine/mplayer programs)

This may be asking a little much, but since DSL is designed for tiny systems, there should be much interest from anyone who owns an Epia board and plays video files.

Posted by dw on June 20 2005,11:40

I want to do exactly the same - but as a Linux newbie I don't have the knowledge to follow the very complicated instructions on the Unichrome project website - so if you get it working, let us know how. I know the board will play DVD - under Windows the hardware decoder works perfectly and DVDs play very smoothly.

Posted by phlapjack77 on June 26 2005,19:23

i too have the same motherboard / cpu, and my dvd playback is choppy. hopefully one of us can figure it out....

later,
phillip

Posted by tempestuous on June 27 2005,03:21

Out of interest, I looked at the Unichrome Project site that dw mentioned - < http://unichrome.sourceforge.net. > There's quite a bit of work involved.
1. compile XFree86 - www.xfree86.org
(I don't think the Xfree86.dsl package will do, because you need the build tree).
2. copile Unichrome VIA driver
3. compile mp2player, or mythTV, or patch Xine, or patch MPlayer.

To achieve this in DSL you would need to install the gcc1.dsl and gnu-utils.dsl packages, and either kernel source or kernel headers.
Considering the scope of your undertaking, I think it would be better to consider a "heavyweight" Linux distribution - Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware, Mandriva, Suse.
Or perhaps a "middleweight" distribution - Vector, Mepis.